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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: 100Péter Eötvös
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age: 88Aribert Reimann
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Random composer timeline fragment
1878-1941
Jeanne Herscher-Clement ♀1878-1944
Emile Desportes ♂1878-1958
René Rabey ♂1878-1956
Edwin Franko Goldman1878-1943
Charles N. Daniels1878-1940
Heinrich Pestalozzi1878-1936
Ossip Gabrilovitch1878-1965
Avery Robinson1878-1953
Conrado del Campo1878-1934
Fritz Cortolezis1878-1952
Jacques Larmanjat1878-1970
René Jullien1878-1915
Isidor Bajic1878-1930
Clay Smith1878-1962
Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg1878-1953
Edgar Stanley Roper1878-1942
Leonid Nikolaiev1878-1942
Leonid Vladimirovitch Nicolaiev1878-1959
Achille Philip1878-1956
Jean Schwartz1878-1953
Ernest Irving1878-1930
Emmy Destinn1878-1944
Herbert Spencer1878-1959
Jean Gallon1878-1935
Wilfred Sanderson1878-1944
Arno Nadel1878-1959
Alfred Pochon1878-1945
Francisco Pujol1878-1964
Adolphe Piriou1878-1958
Adam Carse1878-1924
Karel Komzak1878-1948
Harry Farjeon1878-1963
Heinrich Gebhard1878-1960
Emile Vuillermoz1878-1941
Carlos Pedrell1878-1927
Nicholas Potolowski1878-1959
Fritz Brun1878-1905
Otilie Sukova-Dvorakova1878-1960
Anton Lajovic1878-1930
Osman Perez Freire1878-1943
Waclaw Gieburowski1878-1956
Albert Von Tilzer1878-1964
Arrigo Pedrollo1878-1942
George M. Cohan1878-1943
Béla Reinitz1878-1956
Lorenzo Camilieri1878-1959
Valéry Bury1878-1927
Ernest R. Ball1878-1951
Bert Grant1878-1950
Vincenzo Tommasini