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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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Monday, June 3, 2024
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age: 86Peter Fortig
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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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Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
1478-1513
Thomas Ashwell ♂1478-1557
Juan Escribano1478-1537
Othmar Luscinius1479-1552
Johannes Cochlaeus ♂1480-1521
Juan Ponce ♂1480-1530
Noel Bauldeweyn ♂1480-1563
Pedro de Pastrana ♂1480-1551
Jean Lhéritier ♂1480-1530
Anna von Köln ♀1480-1547
Jean Richafort ♂1480-1538
Andrea Antico ♂1480-1560
Gasparo Alberti ♂1480-1545
Pietro Aaron ♂1480-1538
Marco Dall'Aquila ♂1480-1530
Philippe Verdelot ♂1480-1537
Milanese Ludovico1480-1541
Stephan Mahu1480-1550
Jean Daniel1480-1530
Margaret of Austria ♀1481-1553
Mateo Flecha (el Viejo) ♂1483-1559
Jachet di Mantua ♂1483-1553
Barthélemy Le Bel1483-1538
Hans Buchner ♂1483-1546
Martin Luther ♂1484-1568
Robert Carver ♂1484-1540
Pierre Moulu ♂1484-1550
Johann Spangenberg ♂1485-1551
Johannes Wannenmacher ♂1485-1541
Hans Kotter ♂1485-1544
Balthasar Resinarius ♂1485-1558
Hugh Aston ♂1485-1558
Clément Janequin ♂1485-1574
Pedro Fernández ♂1485-1546
Nikolaus Decius ♂1485-1557
Nicholas Ludford ♂1485-1533
Johannes Frosch ♂1485-1545
Jhan Maistre ♂1485-1526
Thomas Stoltzer ♂1485-1558
Johann Schachinger ♂1485-1536
Robert Jones1485-1554
Richard Bramston1485-1520
Adam Rener1485-1556
Guillaume La Moeulle1486-1556
Martin Agricola ♂1487-1553
Wolfgang Dachstein1487-1556
Francesco Santa Croce ♂1487-1558
Georgius Macropedius ♂1488-1558
Benedictus Appenzeller ♂1488-1548
Georg Rhaw ♂