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Article: Gabrieli, Andrea and Giovanni (Andrea Gabrieli, c. 1532/33–1585; Giovanni Gabrieli, c. 1554/57–1612)
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GABRIELI, ANDREA AND GIOVANNI (Andrea Gabrieli, c. 1532/33
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1585; Giovanni Gabrieli, c. 1554/57
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1612)
GABRIELI, ANDREA AND GIOVANNI
(Andrea Gabrieli, c. 1532/33
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1585; Giovanni Gabrieli, c. 1554/57
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1612), Italian composers and organists noted for the grandeur of their sacred and ceremonial music. Andrea Gabrieli and his nephew Giovanni Gabrieli were leading figures in Venetian music and influenced the development of seventeenth-century German music as well. Most likely a native of Venice, Andrea may have been in Verona during the 1550s (as indicated by the publication there of his earliest known madrigal and his probable association with the Accademia ...