Gabrieli, Giovanni

1554 - Born in Venice.

1579 - He also went to Munich to study with the renowned Orlando de Lassus at the court of Duke Albrecht V; most likely he stayed.

1584 - He had returned to Venice.

1585 - He became principal organist at the church of San Marco.

1597 - The vogue which began with his influential volume Sacrae symphoniae was such that composers from all over Europe, especially from Germany, came to Venice to study.

1606 - Gabrieli was increasingly ill , at which time church authorities began to appoint deputies to take over duties he could no longer perform.

1612 - Died on the 12thn of August, of complications from a kidney stone.