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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: 86Peter Fortig
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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
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age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
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Random composer timeline fragment
1343-1400
Geoffrey Chaucer ♂1348-1424
Giovanni Sercambi ♂1348-1400
Jan of Jenštejn ♂1350-1425
Burk Mangolt ♂1350-1395
Jean I d'Aragon ♂1357-1436
Paolo da Firenze ♂1357-1423
Hugo von Montfort ♂1364-1406
Johannes de Bosco ♂1364-1433
Bonaiutus Corsini ♂1365-1405
Bartolino da Padova ♂1365-1446
John Forest ♂1370-1429
Gacian Reyneau ♂1370-1410
Johannes Tapissier ♂1374-1438
Petrus Rubeus ♂1375-1445
Leonel Power ♂1377-1445
Oswald von Wolkenstein ♂1378-1428
Johannes Symonis Hasprois ♂1380-1457
Ugolino d'Orvieto ♂1380-1470
Richard Cardot ♂1380-1456
Nicolas Grenon ♂1380-1450
Pierre Fontaine ♂1385-1456
Guillaume Rouge ♂1385-1420
Johannes Cesaris ♂1385-1450
Beltrame Feragut ♂1386-1422
Henry V ♂1388-1446
Leonardo Giustiniani ♂1390-1460
Heinrich Laufenberg ♂1390-1453
John Dunstable ♂1390-1437
Thomas Damett1392-1480
Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz ♂1396-1458
Alphonse V le Magnanime ♂1397-1474
Guillaume Dufay ♂1400-1460
Gilles Binchois ♂1400-1475
Johannes Cornago ♂1400-1430
Gualterius Libert ♂1400-1436
Reginaldus Libert ♂1400-1431
Johannes de Lymburgia ♂1400-1465
Guillaume Malbecque ♂1400-1455
Johannes Brassart1410-1497
Johannes Ockeghem ♂1410-
Joseph Anchorena ♂1410-1486
John Plummer ♂1410-1473
Conrad Paumann ♂1415-1477
Johannes Fede ♂1415-1478
Robinet de la Magdalaine ♂1416-1480
Antonio Squarcialupi ♂1420-1485
Guglielmi Ebreo da Pesaro ♂1420-1474
Michel Beheim ♂