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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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age: 90Phil Nimmons
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Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
1907-1991
Cyril Taylor ♂1907-2005
Lora Aborn ♀1907-1981
Yoshio Hasegawa ♂1907-1995
J.P. Somers-Cocks ♂1907-2000
Erich Schmid ♂1907-2015
Carl Howard ♂1907-1983
Karl Loube1907-1953
Hisato Ohzawa1907-1991
Kristo Kono1907-1969
Leigh Harline1907-1964
Alexander Uriah Boskovich1907-1972
Francisco de Madina1907-1979
Federico Elizalde1907-1952
Isotaro Sugata1907-1973
Sid Phillips1907-1969
Heinz Friedrich Hartig1907-1972
Giorgio Nataletti1907-1963
Abraham Ellstein1907-1991
Clifford Julstrom1907-1979
Vassili Pavlovitch Soloviov-Sedoy1907-1987
Dmitri Lvovich Klebanov1907-1937
Giovanni Salviucci1907-1967
Pierre Moulaert1907-1967
Koharik Gazarossian1907-1983
Marc Vaubourgoin1907-1952
Yuri Vladimirovich Kochourov1907-1974
Lev Oborin1907-1970
Jean Gabriel Marie1907-1985
Salvador Ley ♂1907-1987
Alfred Keller ♂1907-1987
Fons Bervoets ♂1907-1988
Helmut Ritter ♂1907-1974
Martin Scherber ♂1907-1987
Henk Badings ♂1907-1994
Jean Daetwyler ♂1907-1996
Maríia Luisa Anido ♀1907-1987
Dragutin Colic ♂1907-1982
Constantin Regamey ♂1907-1977
Paul Durand ♂1907-1992
Sándor Veress ♂1907-1993
Camargo Guarnieri ♂1907-1969
Roberta Martin ♀1907-1991
Jean Langlais ♂1907-1985
Fernando Previtali ♂1907-1980
Alec Wilder ♂1907-1995
Maria Teresa Pelegri i Marimon ♀1907-1957
Joaquim Serra ♂1907-1964
August Corbet ♂1907-1991
Aimée van de Wiele ♀1907-1992
Henry Leland Clarke ♂