Audire, tangere, mirari. Notes on Cabezón’s instrumentarium

Abstract

As a musician at Prince Phillip’s chamber and chapel, Antonio de Cabezón had the oportunity to listen, touch and admire an enormous diversity of instruments, not only in Spain but also in many of the European cities that he visited during 1548-51 and 1554-55. The present article tries to present a general panorama of that instrumentarium, pointing out the influence of the Flemish organ models in the process of renovation of the organbuiding in Spain at the end of the 16th century, with special emphasis on the contacts that were established in Brussels between Antonio de Cabezón and master Jean Crinon.