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GAA or GAH, (G. M.) a good violinist and pianist at Heidelberg in 1803. He published at Manheim, in 1798, “Six Ausgesuchte. Lieder.”
GABLER, (Christopher August) a vocal and instrumental composer at Revel, has published much music at Leipsic, between the years 1788 and 1802.
GABLER, (Matthias) born at Spalt, in Franconia, in 1726, published at Ingolstadt, in 1776, a treatise, in 4to., on the tone of instruments. He died at Wembdingen in 1805.
GABRIELI, (Andrea) a celebrated organist of St. Mark's church at Venice, flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century. He published many madrigals, and church music, at Venice, between the years 1572 and 1590.
GABRIELI, (Domenico) a dramatic composer at Venice in the latter part of the seventeenth century.
GABRIELI, (Francesa) of Ferrara, was a pupil of Sacchini in 1770, at the conservatory of the Ospedalctto, at Venice. In 1786, she sang at the opera in London, and was second only to Madame Mara.
GABRIELI, (Giovanni) a celebrated composer and organist of St. Mark's church at Venice, died in 1612. He published much sacred and other vocal music at Venice.
GABRIELI, (Catiiakina) one of the most celebrated singers of the eighteenth century, was born at Rome in 1730. She was a pupil of Porpora and Metastasio, and was famed for her astonishing capricci. Of this extraordinary woman, Brydone thus speaks, in his Tour through Sicily and Malta, vol. ii. p. 319: “The first woman is Gabrieli, who is certainly the greatest singer in the world, and those that sing on the same theatre with her must be capital, otherwise they never can be attended to.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1824