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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. He was among the most important composers of his time and the first major Iberian keyboard composer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonio de Cabezón is the 450th most popular composer (up from 494th in 2019), the 579th most popular biography from Spain (up from 641st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Spanish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 450 out of 1,451. Before him are Hugo Riemann, Miki Matsubara, Grock, Johannes Tinctoris, Carl Loewe, and John Blow. After him are Pierre de la Rue, Bruno Maderna, Christoph Graupner, Simon Mayr, Ariel Ramírez, and Stefano Landi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 16. Before him are Aloysius Lilius, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Túpac Huallpa, Gonzalo Pizarro, Elena Glinskaya, and Oda Nobuhide. After him are Roy Mata, Jean Goujon, Francesco de' Rossi, Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, Guillaume Postel, and Bernard Palissy. 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, Louise Labé, and Leonhart Fuchs. After him are Sigismund von Herberstein, Margaret Paleologa, Lambert Lombard, Taddeo Zuccari, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, and Francisco López de Gómara.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Antonio de Cabezón ranks 579 out of 3,355. Before him are Chintila (606), Antonio de Nebrija (1441), Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón (1727), Isabella Colbran (1785), Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531), and Agustín Muñoz Grandes (1896). After him are Raymond Nonnatus (1204), García Sánchez III of Pamplona (1012), Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Castile (1358), Muhammad II of Córdoba (980), Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866), and Mateo Alemán (1547).

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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), Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806), Gaspar Sanz (1640), and Federico Mompou (1893). After him are Vicente Martín y Soler (1754), Sebastián Iradier (1809), Luis de Milán (1500), Felip Pedrell (1841), Francisco Guerrero (1528), and Alonso Mudarra (1510).

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