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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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Random composer timeline fragment
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Raymond Lebrun ♂1892-1972
Gladys Rich ♀1892-1953
Hubert Pataky ♂1892-1973
Graciano Tarragó ♂1892-1982
George Poniridis ♂1892-1992
Horace Edward Randerson ♂1892-1923
Sayed Darwish1892-1935
Miklos Radnai1892-1972
Theodor Kaufmann1892-1962
Joao Octaviano1892-1980
John Jacob Niles1892-1985
Hilding Rosenberg1892-1942
Gaston Singery1892-1954
Nikolaï Oboukhov1892-1944
Eric Westberg1892-1980
Joseph Suder1892-1958
Alec Rowley1892-1960
Paul Abraham1892-1940
Hans Weisse1892-1965
Frank Hutchens1892-1980
Paul Fievet1892-1964
José Maria Castro1892-1967
Jaromir Fiala1892-1961
Ernst Roters1892-1978
Petros Petridis1892-1960
Rudolf Moser1892-1974
Knud Jeppesen1892-1965
Fernand Goeyens1892-1944
Markian Petrovich Frolov1892-1976
Louis Fourestier1892-1971
Jules Strens1892-1976
Mateusz Glinski1892-1978
Ernest Seitz1892-1958
Oscar O Brien1892-1972
Fritz Heinrich Klein1892-1962
Otakar Jeremias1892-1981
David Wendell Guion1892-1982
Max Deutsch1892-1970
Henri Gil-Marchex1892-1958
Bruno Sturmer1892-1955
Ilmari Hannikainen1892-1981
Marius Casadesus1892-1952
Belisario Garcia de Jesus1892-1953
Fred E. Ahlert1892-1959
Jaroslav Kvapil1892-1978
Charles Trowbridge Haubiel1892-1944
Werner Wehrli ♂1892-1949
Hans Bottermund ♂1892-1959
Rudolf Mengelberg ♂1892-1959
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