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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
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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
Latest news
On 21 March, Polish composer Elżbieta Sikora has received the Prize of the President of the...
The Preis der Europäischen Kirchenmusik (European Church Music Prize) for 2024 goes to...
The prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for 2024 was won by Korean composer Unsuk Chin....
The "Großen Österreichischen Staatspreis" (Big Austrian Culture Prize) for this year is awarded...
French composer Tristan Murail this year's recipient of the Wihuri Sibelius Prize. Murail was...
British composer Alex Paxton has won the Claussen-Simon-Kompositionspreis, worth €15000. The...
The German composer and pianist Hauschka (real name: Volker Bertelmann) has received the...
The 2023 Composer Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung was won by American composer Eric...
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Julian Jacobson ♂1947-
Paul Schoenfield ♂1947-2022
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Loïc Mallié ♂1947-
Bill Fontana ♂1947-
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Alan Bullard1947-
Gunnar Germeten1947-
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John Peel1947-
Christopher Cotton1947-
Peter Moller1947-
Stephen L. Mosko1947-
Georg Pelecis1947-
Donald Grantham1947-
Toke Lund Christiansen1947-
Morris Pert1947-
Douglas Young1947-
Wolfgang Danzmayr1947-
Jean Yves Bosseur1947-
Mati Kuulberg1947-
Gerry Murphy1947-
Barry Guy1947-
Peter Michael Hamel1947-
Ivan Jevtic1947-
Ryland Cooder1947-
John Walton1947-
Michel Chion1947-
Martin Christoph Redel1947-
David Sanger1947-
Robert Holl1947-
Krzysztof Knittel1947-
Doug Dawson1947-
Stephen Reynolds1947-
Daniel L. Schutte1947-
Anthony Korf1947-
Ruth Bagge1947-
Jo Kondo1947-
William Bland1947-
Randy Edelman1947-
Mark-Louis Lehman1947-
Philip Martin1947-
Max E. Keller1947-
Joan La Barbara1947-
Pete Paul Koprowski1947-
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