Johann Gottlieb Grabbe was a German composer.

A child prodigy, he became a member of the Bückeburg Court choir at 11, learned the organ from Conradus, succeeded him as organist, and was then, like Heinrich Schütz

Heinrich Schütz

Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...

 awarded a scholarship to study with Giovanni Gabrieli

Giovanni Gabrieli

Giovanni Gabrieli 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.-Biography:Gabrieli was born in Venice...

in Venice. While there Grabbe published his primo libro of madrigals as his graduation thesis.