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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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age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
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Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
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Marcel Genarro ♂1888-1947
Gerrard Williams ♂1888-1928
Emil Bohnke ♂1888-1965
Tito Schipa1888-1923
Giacomo Scarlatina1888-1966
Lauri Ikonen1888-1958
Artie Matthews1888-1964
Vincenzo Bellezza1888-1968
Mario Barbieri1888-1953
Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer1888-
Giuseppe Montani1888-1976
Harold Darke1888-1976
George Sklavos1888-1969
Gabriel von Wayditch1888-1967
Adrian Grigorievitch Chapochnikov1888-1918
Cecil Coles1888-1968
Julius Isserlis1888-1944
Moises Simons1888-1965
Krsto Odak1888-1953
Albert Spalding1888-1980
Petr Dinev1888-1971
Fritz Lubrich1888-1967
Raul Borges1888-1963
Vassili Olexandrovitch Barvinski1888-1975
Oscar Rasbach1888-1914
Alexeï Vladimirovitch Stanchinski1888-1949
Poul Schierbeck1888-1964
Harpo Marx1888-1982
Roy Webb1888-1954
Claude Delvincourt ♂1888-1966
Vasil Bozinoff ♂1888-1954
Louis Broquet ♂1888-1967
Amy Worth ♀1888-1946
Birger Anrep-Nordin ♂1888-1969
Lucien Lambotte ♂1888-1937
Jerzy Gablenz ♂1888-1945
Maurice Besly ♂1888-1924
Vicente Greco ♂1888-1967
Matthijs Vermeulen ♂1888-1964
Lawrence Wright ♂1888-1978
Oskar Dietrich ♂1888-1949
Rosy Wertheim ♀1888-1965
Eugène Bigot ♂1888-1958
Gerard Bunk ♂1888-1970
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