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Juan Bautista Cabanilles

1644 - 1712

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Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (also Juan Bautista Josep, Valencian: Joan) (6 September 1644 in Algemesí near Valencia – 29 April 1712 in Valencia) was a Spanish organist and composer at Valencia Cathedral. He is considered by many to have been the greatest Spanish Baroque composer, and has been called the Spanish Bach. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan Bautista Cabanilles is the 703rd most popular composer (up from 751st in 2019), the 899th most popular biography from Spain (up from 945th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Spanish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Juan Bautista Cabanilles ranks 703 out of 1,451Before him are Orazio Vecchi, Riccardo Zandonai, Maxim Berezovsky, Norbert Burgmüller, Johan Agrell, and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer. After him are Lee Konitz, Domenico Dragonetti, Carlos Seixas, Paul Ben-Haim, Kurt Atterberg, and Joseph Leopold Eybler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1644, Juan Bautista Cabanilles ranks 13Before him are Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Jakob Ammann, Louis-François de Boufflers, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, and Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha. After him are Abraham a Sancta Clara, Jean Jouvenet, Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Maria d'Este. Among people deceased in 1712, Juan Bautista Cabanilles ranks 17Before him are Tokugawa Ienobu, Jan van der Heyden, Nehemiah Grew, Bahadur Shah I, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, and Richard Simon. After him are Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Jan Luyken, Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, Rabia Sultan, Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, and Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan Bautista Cabanilles ranks 899 out of 3,355Before him are Francesc Cambó (1876), Diego Martínez Barrio (1883), Narcís Monturiol (1819), Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo (1787), Antonio López García (1936), and Periko Alonso (1953). After him are David de Gea (1990), Blas de Lezo (1689), Josep Sunyol (1898), Indalecio Prieto (1883), Diego Laynez (1512), and Nicolás de Ovando (1451).

Among COMPOSERS In Spain

Among composers born in Spain, Juan Bautista Cabanilles ranks 20Before him are Sebastián Iradier (1809), Luis de Milán (1500), Felip Pedrell (1841), Francisco Guerrero (1528), Alonso Mudarra (1510), and Xavier Cugat (1900). After him are Diego Ortiz (1510), Alberto Iglesias (1955), Gaspar Cassadó (1897), Luis de Narváez (1500), Robert Gerhard (1896), and Xavier Montsalvatge (1912).