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Welcome to Musicalics, the classical music composers archive. Here you can find information about more than 26 thousand composers and over 700 thousand compositions. There is also a large collection of geographical places connected to composers or classical music: the MusicAtlas.
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This website is a combination of the Classical Composers Database (www.classical-composers.org; now disabled) and the extensive composers and compositions archive of Jean-Paul Giraudet, who compiled that in over 50 years. I am thankful to him that he allowed me to use that information here. I am also thankful to Ed Tervooren, who allowed me to publish his collection of MusicAtlas places.
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age: 91Heinz Heckmann
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John Heiss ♂1938-2013
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Attilio del Re1938-
Martunik Israelian1938-2004
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Tormod Sæverud ♂1938-1993
Oleg Nirenburg ♂1938-2006
Igor Kuljeric ♂1938-2003
Sergio Ortega ♂1938-
Robert Baksa ♂1938-
Dianne Goolkasian-Rahbee ♀1938-
Willy Corrêa de Oliveira ♂1938-
Willy Correa de Oliveira ♂1938-
John Corigliano ♂1938-
Pawlu Grech ♂1938-
Lorenzo Palomo ♂1938-
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Tona Scherchen-Hsiao ♀1938-
Dimitri Terzakis ♂1938-2022
Hans-Joachim Hespos ♂1938-2018
Takehisa Kosugi ♂1938-2016
Jean-Claude Risset ♂1938-2017
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Milan Tesar ♂1938-2018
Arthur B. Rubinstein ♂1938-
Simon A. Sargon ♂1938-2014
Iris Litchfield ♀1938-2021
Frederic Rzewski ♂1938-2015
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Juri Jakovlevich Ishchenko ♂1938-1981
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