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Italian composer (c/)

Not to be confused with Giovanni Gabrielli (actor) or Giovanni Maria Gabrielli.

Giovanni Gabrieli (c.&#;/ – 12 August ) was an Italian composer and organist.

He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms.

Biography

Gabrieli was born in Venice.

He was one of five children, and his father came from the region of Carnia and went to Venice shortly before Giovanni's birth. While not much is known about Giovanni's early life, he probably studied with his uncle, the composer Andrea Gabrieli, who was employed at St Mark's Basilica from the s until his death in Giovanni may indeed have been brought up by his uncle, as is implied by the dedication to his book of concerti, in which he described himself as "little less than a son" to his uncle.^[1]

Giovanni also went to Munich to study with the