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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
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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Random composer timeline fragment
1895-1960
Valentin Kostenko ♂1895-1967
Abraham Binder1895-1967
Renato Lunelli1895-1978
Franz Kinzl1895-1978
Bjarne Brustad1895-1967
Enrique Delfino1895-1970
Viktor Nikolaïevitch Trambitski1895-1956
Vasili Netchaiev1895-1962
Youri Serguievitch Nikolski1895-1916
Francis Purcell Warren1895-1953
Louis Beydts1895-1976
Oles Semenovitch Chishko1895-1984
Ernest Charles1895-1967
Malcolm Sargent1895-1971
Shukichi Mitsukuri1895-1932
Tianhua Liu1895-1989
Bruce Simonds1895-1952
Jo Knumann1895-1961
José F. Vasquez1895-1956
Walter Gieseking1895-1968
Sigurdur Thordarson1895-1942
Villem Zrzavei1895-1941
Slavko Osterc1895-1966
Abraham Wolf Binder1895-1956
Marij Kogoj1895-1967
Dennis Wright1895-1991
Wilhelm Kempff1895-1951
Cecil Gray1895-1976
Ivo Tijardovic1895-1984
Kathleen Richards1895-1980
Humphrey Procter-Gregg1895-1959
Venedikt Bobtchevski1895-1971
Edward Elezear Confrey1895-1979
Fritz Oberdoerffer1895-1992
Eva Jessye ♀1895-1963
Cláudio Carneyro ♂1895-1974
Harry Ruby ♂1895-1963
Irving Aaronson ♂1895-1962
Edmond Gaujac ♂1895-1941
Miron Polyakin ♂1895-1980
Henri Martelli ♂1895-1969
Alison Travers ♀1895-1979
Guiomar Novaës ♀1895-1972
Vittorio Mascheroni ♂1895-1980
Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen ♂1895-1968
Juan José Castro ♂1895-1985
Dane Rudhyar ♂1895-1968
Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco ♂1895-1962
Eduard Toldrà ♂1895-1955
Rudolf Kattnigg ♂