COMPOSER

Antonio de Cabezón

1510 - 1566

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Antonio de Cabezón (30 March 1510 – 26 March 1566) was a Spanish Renaissance composer and organist. Blind from childhood, he quickly rose to prominence as a performer and was eventually employed by the royal family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio de Cabezón has received more than 99,103 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Antonio de Cabezón is the 494th most popular composer (up from 496th in 2019), the 641st most popular biography from Spain (down from 636th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Spanish Composer.

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  • 99k

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  • 56.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 494 out of 1,451. Before him are Simon Mayr, Arno Babajanian, Giuseppe Sarti, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Johann Adam Hiller, and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. After him are Gian Francesco Malipiero, Franz Abt, Erwin Schulhoff, Kaija Saariaho, Agostino Steffani, and John Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 17. Before him are Elena Glinskaya, Túpac Huallpa, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Oda Nobuhide, Francesco de' Rossi, and Jean Goujon. After him are Ivan Fyodorov, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Bernard Palissy, Guillaume Postel, Margaret Paleologa, and Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon. Among people deceased in 1566, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 9. Before him are Bartolomé de las Casas, Diane de Poitiers, Nikola IV Zrinski, Daniele da Volterra, Leonhart Fuchs, and Louise Labé. After him are Sigismund von Herberstein, Margaret Paleologa, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Taddeo Zuccari, Lambert Lombard, and Guillaume Rondelet.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 641 out of 3,355. Before him are Isabella Colbran (1785), Santiago Cañizares (1969), Sisenand (605), José Ángel Iribar (1943), Josep Pla (1897), and David de Gea (1990). After him are Manuel Fraga (1922), Ruy López de Villalobos (1500), Ángel Nieto (1947), Diego Laynez (1512), Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Germany (1305), and Ramón Serrano Suñer (1901).

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Among COMPOSERS In Spain

Among composers born in Spain, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 12. Before him are Jordi Savall (1941), Antonio Soler (1729), Joaquín Turina (1882), Federico Mompou (1893), Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806), and Gaspar Sanz (1640). After him are Sebastián Iradier (1809), Vicente Martín y Soler (1754), Luis de Milán (1500), Diego Ortiz (1510), Xavier Cugat (1900), and Francisco Guerrero (1528).

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