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Giovanni Gabrieli

1557 - 1612

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Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Gabrieli has received more than 416,815 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Giovanni Gabrieli is the 120th most popular composer (down from 116th in 2019), the 563rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 501st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Italian Composer.

Giovanni Gabrieli is most famous for being a composer of the Venetian School, and for his contribution to the development of the instrumental concerto.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Giovanni Gabrieli ranks 120 out of 1,216Before him are Manuel de Falla, Max Bruch, Zoltán Kodály, Arthur Honegger, Josef Strauss, and Girolamo Frescobaldi. After him are Anton Rubinstein, György Ligeti, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Domenico Cimarosa, Pérotin, and Krzysztof Penderecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1557, Giovanni Gabrieli ranks 3Before him are Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor and Feodor I of Russia. After him are Agostino Carracci, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Stephen Bocskai, Balthasar Gérard, Irina Godunova, Oda Nobutada, Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, Lew Sapieha, and Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel. Among people deceased in 1612, Giovanni Gabrieli ranks 4Before him are Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Sasaki Kojirō, and Vasili IV of Russia. After him are Christopher Clavius, Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Federico Barocci, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, Karin Månsdotter, Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Jodocus Hondius.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Gabrieli ranks 563 out of 4,668Before him are Pope Leo VII (900), Charles Ponzi (1882), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583), Louis II of Italy (825), Antonello da Messina (1430), and Benedetto Croce (1866). After him are Julia the Elder (-39), Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (1782), Rudolph Valentino (1895), Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1549), Raffaella Carrà (1943), and Lucius Caesar (-17).

Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Giovanni Gabrieli ranks 26Before him are Carlo Gesualdo (1566), Jacopo Peri (1561), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857), Muzio Clementi (1752), Giulio Caccini (1551), and Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583). After him are Domenico Cimarosa (1749), Gregorio Allegri (1582), Ottorino Respighi (1879), Vincenzo Galilei (1520), Giovanni Paisiello (1740), and Vittorio Monti (1868).