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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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Beverly Grigsby ♀1928-
François Pantillon ♂1928-2015
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Jean-Michel Damase ♂1928-2005
Günther Braun ♂1928-1984
Ángel Arteaga ♂1928-2000
Bengt Hambraeus ♂1928-2002
Dorothy Love Coates ♀1928-2014
Mitch Leigh ♂1928-
Valentin Panomarenko ♂1928-2006
Siegfried Fink ♂1928-2021
James Cohn ♂1928-2013
Lawrence Ashmore ♂1928-2023
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Nicolas Flagello ♂1928-2008
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Carl (Karl) Boehm ♂1928-2022
Edino Krieger ♂1928-2019
Ruth Anderson ♀1928-
Valentin Gheorghiu ♂1928-2021
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Antonín Tučapský ♂1928-2018
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