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Classical music composers archive
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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Andrew Violette
Monday, April 12, 2021
age: 67Wayne Peterson
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age: 93Simon Bainbridge
Friday, April 2, 2021
age: 68John Morehen
Monday, March 29, 2021
age: 79Rudolf Kelterborn
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age: 89Richard Stoker
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
age: 82Paul W. Whear
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age: 95Klaus Cornell
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
age: 88Antón García Abril
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age: 87Heinz Albert Heindrichs
Friday, March 12, 2021
age: 90Stephen Scott
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age: 76Julien-François Zbinden
Monday, March 8, 2021
age: 103
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1919-2007
Ernö Király ♂1919-1999
Vera Gorodovskaia ♀1919-1999
Walter Gieseler1919-1983
Michael Spivakovski1919-1978
Maurice Dela1919-2000
Li Huanzhi ♂1919-2003
Woolf Phillips ♂1919-2019
Juan Orrego-Salas ♂1919-2006
Štěpán Lucký ♂1919-2019
Sid Ramin ♂1919-2009
Leon Kirchner ♂1919-2013
Fred Katz ♂1919-2006
Nina Milkina ♀1919-1972
Ross Bagdassarian ♂1919-2008
Robert Suter ♂1919-2000
Dorothy Whitson Freed ♀1919-2007
Jiří Pauer ♂1919-
Luc André Marcel ♀1919-1994
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati ♂1919-1999
Alfred Goodman ♂1919-1980
Bjorn Fongaard ♂1919-1995
Ivor (Christopher Banfield) Keys ♂1919-1996
Mercer Ellington ♂1919-
Jacob Avshalomov ♂1919-
Harold Van Heuvelen ♂1919-1979
Piet Post ♂1919-1962
Grant Aramovich Grigorian ♂1919-2012
István Anhalt ♂1919-
Arthur St Germaine ♂1919-1995
Karel Berman ♂1919-2008
Talivaldis Kenins ♂1919-1990
Bülent Arel1919-2012
Heinz Wunderlich ♂1919-2014
Peter R. Seeger ♂1919-1997
Dimitar Petkov ♂1919-1974
Soltan Ismaïl Gadjibekov ♂1919-2009
Paul Manz ♂1919-1995
Tibor Sárai ♂1919-1994
Mircea Chiriac ♂1919-1991
Gino Negri ♂1919-2001
Leif Kayser ♂1919-2006
Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya ♀1919-2015
Per Albertsen ♂1919-1994
Norman Del Mar ♂1919-2000
Kim Borg ♂1919-2000
Tommy Reilly ♂1919-2002
Henning Wellejus ♂