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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: 76Richard Horowitz
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age: 75Lorenzo Palomo
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age: 86Peter Fortig
Friday, April 12, 2024
age: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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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
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Paul Peron ♂1876-1930
Salvatore Messina ♂1876-1957
William Henley ♂1876-1944
Pietari Akimov1876-1953
Patrik Vretblad1876-1947
José Barbera1876-1963
Gustav Bumcke1876-1958
Jean Poueigh1876-1919
Thomas S. Allen1876-1954
Flor Alpaerts1876-1954
Vittorio Gnecchi1876-1929
Max Laurischkus1876-1942
Wiliam Henry Reed1876-1939
Karl Maria Pembaur1876-1932
Mortimer Wilson1876-1939
Ernest Schelling1876-1956
Wilhelm Zehle1876-1962
Armande de Polignac1876-1919
Manuel Klein1876-1944
William Whittaker1876-1957
Michel Dvorski1876-1965
Carlo Gatti1876-1940
Louis Delune1876-1968
Walter William Stockhoff1876-1956
Hermann Louis Blankenburg1876-1962
John Owen Jones1876-1941
Marcel Sulzberger1876-1913
Lucia Contini Anselmi1876-1942
Patrice Devanchy1876-1957
Josef Hofmann1876-1953
Narciso Garay1876-1939
Gregor Suni1876-1944
Bonifacio Abdon1876-1942
Johannes Reichert1876-1938
Johann Wilhelm Ganglberger1876-1906
William Yeates Hurlstone ♂1876-1948
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari ♂1876-1972
William Havergal Brian ♂1876-1939
Ludolf Nielsen ♂1876-1952
Raymond Pech ♂1876-1944
Victor Vreuls ♂1876-1953
Heikki Klemetti ♂1876-1945
Feodor Stepanovich Akimenko ♂1876-1952
Wadia Sabra ♂1876-1951
John Alden Carpenter ♂1876-1967
Jindřich Jindřich ♂1876-1956
Harald Heide ♂1876-1971
Carl Ruggles ♂1876-1926
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