GIOVANNI GABRIELI nephew and pupil of An drea, was born in Venice in 1557. He became first organist of St. Mark's in 1585. His monument in San Stefano gives the date of his death as Aug. 12, 1613, but this may be a mistake for 1612 as his post was filled on Aug. 12 of that year. He was a brilliant con trapuntist and, like his uncle, became a celebrated teacher. Hein rich Schutz, Alois Grani and Michael Praetorius were the most famous of his pupils. He experimented boldly with new com binations of instruments, new forms and new harmonies. New editions of some of his organ works appear in Ritter's Zur Geschichte des Orgelspieles (1884) and J. v. Wassilievski's Gesch.
See Karl v. Winterfeld: Johannes Gabrieli and sein Zeitalter in 3 vols. (1834) of which one vol. contains mus. examples.