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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 93,905 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Antonio de Cabezón is the 496th most popular composer (down from 495th in 2019), the 636th most popular biography from Spain (down from 615th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Spanish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 496 out of 1,216Before him are Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Luis Bacalov, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Frederick Delius, Alexandre Tansman, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach. After him are Albert Ketèlbey, Franz Doppler, Thomas Arne, Ferdinand Hérold, Bruno Maderna, and Antoine Busnois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 18Before him are Túpac Huallpa, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Oda Nobuhide, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Francesco de' Rossi, and Guillaume Postel. After him are Ivan Fyodorov, Jean Goujon, Andrea Schiavone, Margaret Paleologa, Bernard Palissy, and Diego Ortiz. Among people deceased in 1566, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 9Before him are Bartolomé de las Casas, Diane de Poitiers, Nikola IV Zrinski, Daniele da Volterra, Leonhart Fuchs, and Louise Labé. After him are Margaret Paleologa, Sigismund von Herberstein, Johannes Agricola, Lambert Lombard, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, and Guillaume Rondelet.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 636 out of 2,932Before him are Abbot Oliba (971), Paulo da Gama (1465), Ángel Nieto (1947), Luis Ladaria Ferrer (1944), Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560), and José de Acosta (1540). After him are Elsa Pataky (1976), Clara Campoamor (1888), Federico Bahamontes (1928), Santillana (1952), Joan Manuel Serrat (1943), and Alicia de Larrocha (1923).

Among COMPOSERS In Spain

Among composers born in Spain, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 15Before him are Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806), Joaquín Turina (1882), Sebastián Iradier (1809), Federico Mompou (1893), Gaspar Sanz (1640), and Vicente Martín y Soler (1754). After him are Diego Ortiz (1510), Luis de Milán (1500), Xavier Cugat (1900), Luis de Pablo (1930), Felip Pedrell (1841), and Francisco Guerrero (1528).