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Antonio de Cabezón

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March 26, 1566: Antonio de Cabezón dies in Madrid, Kingdom of Spain, aged approximately 56 years.
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Today in Music and History: November 23
1856: Franz Liszt (45) conducts two of his symphonic poems, Les Preludes and Orpheus, at a concert at St. Gall, Switzerland. Richard Wagner (43), who conducts the Eroica Symphony on the same program, is enormously impressed with both of them, and calls Orpheus “a totally unique masterpiece of the highest perfection.”
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