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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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Sunday, June 2, 2024
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age: 71Víctor Urbán
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age: 90Jean Musy
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age: 76Lorenzo Palomo
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age: 86Richard Horowitz
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age: 75Peter Fortig
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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: 88Lita Grier
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Jacob Meiland ♂1542-1590
Sebastian Vredeman ♂1542-1591
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Friedrich Lindner ♂1542-1622
Nikolaus Rosthius ♂1542-1604
Santino Garsi1542-1623
Andreas Crappius1542-1587
Mary d'Ecosse1542-1617
Cesare Bendinelli1543-1623
William Byrd ♂1543-1560
Barthélemy Beaulaigue ♂1543-1588
Alfonso Ferrabosco Sr. ♂1543-1607
Giovanni Maria Nanino1543-1623
Giulio d' Oristagno1543-1627
Guillaume Dillen1543-1595
John Angus1543-1628
Phileno Agostino Cornazzani1544-1575
Ivo de Vento ♂1544-1590
Maddalena Casulana ♀1544-1623
Alessandro Savioli1544-1601
Diego del Castillo1544-1602
Francesco Guami1544-1587
Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi1544-1603
Mauro Chiaula1544-1590
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Jan Jacob van Turnhout ♂1545-1586
Jacques Salmon ♂1545-1618
Giulio Caccini ♂1545-1612
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Lodovico Balbi1545-1591
Benedetto Pesenti1545-1589
Antonio Pace1545-1611
Simon Lohet1545-1591
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Bernhard Klingenstein ♂1545-1604
Giovanni Giovenale Ancina ♂1546-1607
Michael Tonsor ♂1546-1598
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