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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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Random composer timeline fragment
1491-1515
William Rasar ♂1491-1560
François Gindron ♂1491-1547
Henry VIII ♂1492-1562
Nikolaus Kropstein ♂1492-1550
Silvestro di Ganassi dal Fontego ♂1492-1540
Francesco de Layolle ♂1493-1541
Lupus Hellinck ♂1493-1554
Johannes Hartung ♂1493-1548
Sixt Dietrich ♂1494-1576
Hans Sachs ♂1495-1542
Johann Kugelmann ♂1495-1556
Noel Cybot ♂1495-1556
Leonhard Kleber ♂1495-1545
Ulrich Bratel ♂1495-1560
Stephen Prowett1495-1549
Lorenz Lemlin1495-1536
Johann Weck1495-1550
Matthias Greiter1495-1524
Sebastiano Festa1495-1549
Antonio Rotta1495-1552
Eustorg de Beaulieu1495-1571
Antonio Molino1495-1539
Jachet de Mantoue1495-1542
Wilhelm Breitengraser1495-1562
John Gwynneth1495-1569
John Dark1495-1567
Leonhard Paminger1496-1570
Johann Walter ♂1497-1533
Cosmas Alder1497-1543
Francesco Canova da Milano1497-1579
John Heywood1497-1553
Mattio Rampollini ♂1497-1543
Francesco Canova da Milano ♂1498-1535
Jean Conseil ♂1498-1566
Nicolas Martin ♂1498-1561
Julio Segni ♂1499-1561
Sebald Heyden1499-1562
Adrianus Petit Coclico1499-1580
Pietro Paolo Ragazzoni1500-1554
Arnold von Bruck ♂1500-1550
Luis de Narvaez ♂1500-1565
Jacob Buus ♂1500-1551
Albert de Rippe ♂1500-1579
Miguel de Fuenllana ♂1500-1567
Bartolomeo Trosylho ♂1500-1569
Paolo Animuccia ♂1500-1561
Luis Milán ♂1500-1560
Jacques Moderne ♂1500-1553
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