<div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-full is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="507" height="640" src="https://d3fr1q02b1tb0i.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/12125846/1.jpg" alt="Giovanni Gabrieli (circa 1555-1612)" class="wp-image-9547" style="width:350px" srcset="https://d3fr1q02b1tb0i.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/12125846/1.jpg 507w, https://d3fr1q02b1tb0i.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/12125846/1-238x300.jpg 238w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Giovanni Gabrieli (circa 1555-1612)</figcaption></figure> </div> <p>We mark the death on August 12, 1612 &#8211; 412 years ago today &#8211; of the composer Giovanni Gabrieli.&nbsp; Born in Venice circa 1555, he grew up and spent his professional life in that glorious city, and died there as a result of complications from a kidney stone.</p> <p>Gabrieli’s magnificent, soul-stirring music went a long way towards helping to define the expressive exuberance of what we now identify as Baroque era music.&nbsp; The impact and influence of his music was <em>ginormous</em>, an impact and influence that culminated a century later in the German High Baroque music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)!</p> <p>To a degree beyond any other composer before or after him, Gabrieli’s music has come to be identified with his hometown of <em>Venice</em>, in particular the acoustically unique Venetian performance venues for which so much of his music was composed.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>It is necessary, then, for us to spend some time in Venice, if only to get some inkling of what makes this singularly remarkable city so spiritually, artistically, and architecturally unique; and why Gabrieli’s music is <em>uniquely Venetian.</em>…</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/109977848" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">Continue Reading, only on Patreon!</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=273590" data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button">Become a Patron!</a><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><div class="clearfix">&nbsp;</div> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Listen and Subscribe to the Music History Monday Podcast</h2> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Robert Greenberg Best Sellers</h2><p>The post <a href="https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-giovanni-gabrieli-and-the-miracle-that-is-venice/">Music History Monday: Giovanni Gabrieli and the Miracle That is Venice!</a> first appeared on <a href="https://robertgreenbergmusic.com">Robert Greenberg</a>.</p>