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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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age: 88Lita Grier
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Random composer timeline fragment
1834-1917
Esmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev ♀1834-1901
Federico Vollmer ♂1834-1896
Anna Pessiak-Schmerling ♀1834-1861
Tekla Badarcewska-Baranowska ♀1834-1907
Francesco Bellotta ♂1834-1911
Nicolai von Wilm1834-1901
Eduardo Ocon1834-1915
Ernest Gagnon1834-1916
Karl Heinrich Doring1834-1855
August Josef Lanner1834-1914
Alexander Winterberger1834-1897
William Cleaver Francis Robinson1834-1910
Pablo Hernandez Salces1834-1901
Elias Alvares Lobo1834-1903
Hart Pease Danks1834-1899
Albert Ernst Anton Becker1834-1916
Edward Thorne1834-1889
Vincent Aloise Amann1834-1916
Edouard Legouix1834-1893
James Waterson1834-1897
George Garrett1834-1875
David Poll da Silva1834-1925
Moritz Jaffé ♂1834-1861
Luigi Vespoli ♂1834-1924
Sabine Baring-Gould ♂1834-1888
Franz Xaver Witt ♂1834-1901
Joseph Mertens ♂1834-1910
Albert Heinrich Zabel ♂1834-1895
Aleksander Zarzycki ♂1834-1858
Julius Reubke ♂1834-1901
Edmond de Polignac ♂1834-1901
Carlo Angeloni ♂1834-1921
Arthur Pougin ♂1834-1901
Peter Benoit ♂1834-1919
Karol Bernard Zaluski ♂1834-1886
Amilcare Ponchielli ♂1834-1893
William Charles Cunningham Corri ♂1834-1874
Vilém Blodek ♂1834-1911
Franjo Ksaver Kuhač ♂1834-1902
Jean Baptiste Colyns ♂1835-1879
Henri Cellot ♂1835-1870
Hippolyte Borssat ♂1835-1884
Auguste Coedes ♂1835-1913
Alessandro Parisotti1835-1860
Guglielmo Andreoli1835-1906
Manuel Fernandez Caballero1835-1902
Samuel Butler1835-1892
Hugo de Senger1835-1895
Ludwig Abel1835-1919
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