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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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Saturday, April 27, 2024
age: 76Lorenzo Palomo
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
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age: 88Aribert Reimann
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age: 88James Whitbourn
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age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
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Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
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Random composer timeline fragment
1930-2003
Ann Silsbee ♀1930-1995
Pierre Max Dubois ♂1930-2012
Lawrence Whiffin ♂1930-
Werner Heider ♂1930-
William Perry ♂1930-
Michel Puig ♂1930-
Zhanna Efimovna Kolodub ♀1930-1948
Carmelina Delfin ♀1930-2017
Ruth Lomon ♀1930-
Lowell Shaw ♂1930-2006
Roger Hannay ♂1930-
Enrique Santos ♂1930-
Peter Dodd1930-
Paul Johnson1930-2019
Kozma Lara ♂1930-2020
Frederick Charles Tillis ♂1930-1998
Edgar Hovhannisyan ♂1930-2014
Kenny Wheeler ♂1930-2022
Rogelio Groba ♂1930-2018
Ronald Arnatt ♂1930-2021
Luis de Pablo ♂1930-2004
Usko Meriläinen ♂1930-1995
Mark Karminski ♂1930-2011
Maria Elena Walsh ♀1930-2015
Herbert Bielawa ♂1930-2005
Manuel Castillo ♂1930-2011
Emil Petrovics ♂1930-
Peter Phillips ♂1930-2000
Christopher Dearnley ♂1930-
Gerhard Ruhm ♂1930-2016
Herbert Tachezi ♂1930-2023
Jaap Vink ♂1930-2002
Jorgen Plaetner ♂1930-2024
Karel Janovický ♂1930-2000
Pierre Gabaye ♂1930-2014
Antoinette Kirkwood ♀1930-2022
Petar Bergamo ♂1930-2015
Pierre Jansen ♂1930-2019
Gagik Hovunts ♂1930-2014
Lorin Maazel ♂1930-2015
Ornette Coleman ♂1930-2006
Stanko Horvat ♂1930-2018
Dieter Schnebel1930-
Albert Fasce ♂1930-2011
Minoru Miki ♂1930-
Harald Banter ♂1930-2017
Vera Baeva ♀1930-1984
Michel Magne ♂1930-2021
Stephen Sondheim ♂