Giovanni Gabrieli
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Giovanni Gabrieli 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
Tomb of Giovanni Gabrieli in Santo Stefano, Venice
The choir in the 18th century
St Mark's Basilica
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The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known as St Mark's Basilica, is the cathedral church of the Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice i
Giovanni Gabrieli
…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 1560s until his death in 1585. Giovanni may indeed have been brought up by his uncle, as is implied by the dedication to his 1587 book of…
Main façade of St Mark's Basilica at Piazza San Marco
Central nave looking east
The entry to St Mark's, believed to date to the Participazio church
Antonio Pellanda, reconstruction of the western façade of the Contarini church (1881)