CABEZÓN, ANTONIO de. — Spanish musician, born in 1510 at Castrillo de Matajudíos and died on 25 March 1566. He became blind as a child, and after spending some time with the bishop of Palencia, at the age of eighteen he was already in the service of Charles V and Filippo II; he was subsequently in Genoa, Milan, Mantua, Trent, etc., and perhaps also in England. His works display great inventiveness, and wondrous was the art with which he played the organ.
Of his works—interludes, psalmody, tientos, glosses, and variations, composed for the instruction of his numerous pupils—his son collected a portion and presented it to King Filippo in 1578. He was admired as the greatest organist of his time. His works were published recently by Filippo Pedrell in volumes III, IV, VII, and VIII of the Hispaniae Musica Sacra (Barcelona 1895 ff.). Gregorio M. Suñol