In four hundred years after his death, Festival Monteverdi Vivaldi pays homage to the genius of Giovanni Gabrieli with a special concert - Saturday, June 30 - in collaboration with Ca 'Foscari University and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Geneva and entrusted to the Director Gabriel Garrido, one of top experts in the world of baroque repertoire.

What would become the music today, and film music in particular, without Mahler and Puccini? Similarly we can ask: what would happen to the seventeenth and eighteenth century music without Giovanni Gabrieli? Although the name is not known to most as those of Monteverdi, Cavalli or Vivaldi, Gabrieli can rightly be identified with the Venetian music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Organist at the Basilica of San Marco, as a composer perfected to its highest level and fertilized with a powerful imagination to 'concert style' that would become the trademark of Venetian music.