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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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Jean Musy
Saturday, April 27, 2024
age: 76Lorenzo Palomo
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age: 86Richard Horowitz
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age: 75Peter Fortig
Friday, April 12, 2024
age: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
Sunday, March 24, 2024
age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
Thursday, March 21, 2024
age: 88Aribert Reimann
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
age: 88James Whitbourn
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
age: 60George Newson
Friday, March 8, 2024
age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
Monday, March 4, 2024
age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
Latest news
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Christopher Shultis ♂1957-
Jorge Ritter Navarro1957-
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Paul Moravec1957-
Nils Tykesson1957-
Roland Wiltgen1957-
Pellumb Vorpsi1957-
Anders Nordentoft1957-
Detlev Muller-Siemens1957-
Uri Caine1957-
Jeffrey Wilson1957-
Robert Fruhewald1957-
Jon Siddall1957-
Maximo Diego Pujol1957-
Harri Vuori1957-
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Richard Argosh1957-
Jean-René Combes-Damien1957-
Billy Childs1957-
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Alexandre Danilevski1957-
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