Giovanni Gabrieli - Sonata pian e forte for 8 parts, C. 176 (1597)

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Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 -- 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms. Sacrae Symphoniae: No. 6: Sonata pian e forte for 8 parts, C. 176 (1597) Gabrieli Consort & Players conducted by Paul McCreesh Polychoral writing may have been over a century old in Venice and northern Italy by the ti