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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: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
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Random composer timeline fragment
1840-1918
Oskar [Oscar] Rieding ♂1840-1911
Vassili Vassilievitch Kuhner ♂1840-1912
Hamilton Clarke1840-1916
Ernst Rudorff1840-1920
Conrad Nordqvist1840-1923
Claude Melnotte1840-1915
Michael Haller1840-1915
Giusto Dacci1840-1913
Arno Kleffel1840-1913
Nicolas Joseph Wackenthaler1840-1899
Johnny Patterson1840-1903
Richard Mills1840-1924
Adolphe Wouters1840-1929
Renée Elfrida1840-1889
William Michael Watson1840-1917
Blas Maria Colomer1840-1907
Bernhard Reichardt1840-1884
Louis Brassin1840-1906
Georg Jacobi1840-1908
Abraham Goldfaden1840-1915
Léon Reuchsel1840-1878
Albert Grundt1840-1919
Jakob Fabricius1840-1889
Carli Zoeller1840-1883
Frederick Scotson Clark1840-1877
Ludwig Bernhard Hoppfer1840-1911
Adolphe Deslandres1840-1912
Giulio Ricordi1840-1891
Franco Faccio1840-1920
François Borne1840-1919
Georges Douay ♂1840-1908
Carlo Andreoli ♂1840-1886
Maximilien Wolf ♂1840-1910
Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray ♂1840-1911
Samuel de Lange ♂1840-1924
Alexis Hollaender ♂1840-1877
Gustave Ruiz ♂1840-1917
Guido Tacchinardi ♂1840-1886
Théodore Ritter ♂1840-1906
Friedrich Oskar Wermann ♂1840-1893
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ♂1840-1911
Filippo Capocci ♂1840-1866
Frans Dunkler ♂1840-1901
Sir John Stainer ♂1840-1916
Emil Krause ♂1840-1904
Aldine Sillman Kieffer ♂1840-1913
Ingeborg von Bronsart ♀1840-1923
George Elbridge Whiting ♂