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He is best known for his Tientos—short, intense, liturgical works for organ.

Many of his compositions have survived and are in print yet today in sheet music and recorded form. Sheet music is written represenation of music. ... Historical records of events have been made for thousands of years in one form or another. ...

Cabezon's work is among the earliest surviving music written for solo organ.