Venetian School (music)

The Venetian School was a flow of composers of the Renaissance, which was based in Venice and over many decades, from the mid-16th century, had Europe-wide impact to the 17th century. As the founder applies the Dutchman Adrian Willaert. Other important composers of the Venetian school were Cipriano de Rore, Giovanni Croce, Claudio Merulo, Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi.

The Venetian School made ​​in the organ Toccata and other purely instrumental genres significant contributions to the emancipation of instrumental music; music history, the paramount importance of the concept of music making throughout the region through the development of so-called Venetian polychorality.

Stylistically, the Venetian school by exploring the chromaticism and targeting strong contrasts both in the dynamics and in the timbre is characterized.