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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
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age: 88James Whitbourn
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age: 60George Newson
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age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
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Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
1905-1987
Léon Mouravieff ♂1905-1978
Vincenzo Cinque ♂1905-1988
Zdenek Blazek ♂1905-1980
Mary Plumstead ♀1905-1980
Fred Hartley ♂1905-1969
Joseph Kosma1905-1981
John Dykes Bower1905-1964
Alexander Shamilievitch Melik-Pashaiev1905-1980
Annunzio Paolo Mantovani1905-
Pierre Gradwohl1905-1991
Shuxian Xiao1905-1960
Matyas Seiber1905-1972
Ingunn Bjarnadottir1905-1970
Robert Ruthenfranz1905-1960
Jacques de Menasce1905-1958
Nicholas Brodszky1905-1977
Walter Pach1905-1976
Jenö Kenessey1905-1968
Alan Paul1905-1995
Marcel Rubin1905-1992
Boris Alexandre Arapov1905-1991
Gyorgy Deak Bardos1905-1974
Noël Zahler1905-1963
Winfried Zillig1905-1983
Aminollah Hossein1905-1994
Conrad Eden1905-1933
Volodimir Olexandrovitch Femelidi1905-1994
Jule Styne1905-1986
Harold Arlen1905-1962
Harry Barris1905-1992
William Russell1905-1981
Christian Darnton1905-1989
Clifton Parker1905-1977
Alexeï Kozlovski1905-1992
Ulric Cole1905-1982
Pablo Garrido1905-1971
Knud Vad Thomsen1905-1975
Pierre Auclert1905-1946
Sigfrid Walther Muller1905-1987
Elizabeth Poston1905-1981
Carlo Alberto Pizzini1905-1973
Edward Lockspeiser1905-1988
René Defossez1905-1972
Terenzio Gargiulo1905-1973
Allie Wrubel1905-1995
Arni Bjornsson1905-1975
Nikolaï Narimanidze1905-1958
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