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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: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
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age: 88Aribert Reimann
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
age: 88James Whitbourn
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age: 60George Newson
Friday, March 8, 2024
age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
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age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
1922-2001
Jean Doue ♂1922-
Georges Guinot ♂1922-2010
Marcel Henri Faivre ♂1922-1992
John Carisi1922-1982
Kirill Vladimirovitch Molchanov1922-1982
Poul Rovsing Olsen1922-2006
Otmar Macha1922-1992
Josef Matej1922-1980
Jerry Fielding1922-1992
Nico Schuyt ♂1922-2006
Jacques Wildberger ♂1922-1983
Finn (Einar) Mortensen ♂1922-2012
Wim Franken ♂1922-2017
Robert De Cormier ♂1922-2021
Ester Mägi ♀1922-2005
Eduardo Alemann ♂1922-2008
Antonio Bibalo ♂1922-2014
Yehezkiel Braun ♂1922-2015
Teodor Bratu ♂1922-2007
André David ♂1922-1999
Jeanine Rueff ♀1922-2015
Manuel Oltra ♂1922-2007
Tudor Jarda ♂1922-2015
Dorothy Guyver Britton ♀1922-1987
Mario Zafred ♂1922-2019
André Asriel ♂1922-2012
Felix Werder ♂1922-1986
Matti Rautio ♂1922-1989
Morteza Hannaneh ♂1922-2007
Eric Feldbusch ♂1922-1981
Kazimierz Serocki ♂1922-2005
Kaljo Raid ♂1922-2000
Boris Yarovinski ♂1922-2012
Leopoldo Gamberini ♂1922-1999
Thomas Hugh Eastwood ♂1922-1966
Robert Kreutz ♂1922-1966
Herman Galynin ♂1922-1998
Peter Jona Korn ♂1922-2017
George Fiala ♂1922-2004
Elmer Bernstein ♂1922-2005
Harry Freedman ♂1922-2000
Kenneth Howard Peacock ♂1922-2003
Alexander Raichev ♂1922-1983
David Alexandrovitch Toradze ♂1922-2009
Ali Akbar Khan ♂1922-2000
Pierre Petit ♂1922-1979
Charles Mingus ♂1922-2012
John Bavicchi ♂1922-1992
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