Composer quick search
Classical music composers archive
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.
Use the search form above to find what you are looking for.
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.
Recently deceased composers
Jean Musy
Saturday, April 27, 2024
age: 76Richard Horowitz
Saturday, April 13, 2024
age: 75Lorenzo Palomo
Saturday, April 13, 2024
age: 86Peter Fortig
Friday, April 12, 2024
age: 90Phil Nimmons
Friday, April 5, 2024
age: 100Péter Eötvös
Sunday, March 24, 2024
age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
Thursday, March 21, 2024
age: 88Aribert Reimann
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
age: 88James Whitbourn
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
age: 60George Newson
Friday, March 8, 2024
age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
Monday, March 4, 2024
age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
Latest news
On 21 March, Polish composer Elżbieta Sikora has received the Prize of the President of the...
The Preis der Europäischen Kirchenmusik (European Church Music Prize) for 2024 goes to...
The prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for 2024 was won by Korean composer Unsuk Chin....
The "Großen Österreichischen Staatspreis" (Big Austrian Culture Prize) for this year is awarded...
French composer Tristan Murail this year's recipient of the Wihuri Sibelius Prize. Murail was...
British composer Alex Paxton has won the Claussen-Simon-Kompositionspreis, worth €15000. The...
The German composer and pianist Hauschka (real name: Volker Bertelmann) has received the...
The 2023 Composer Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung was won by American composer Eric...
Random composer timeline fragment
1944-
Henrik Colding-Jorgensen ♂1944-
Niels La Cour ♂1944-
Michael Garrett ♂1944-
Rhian Samuel ♀1944-
Barry Conyngham ♂1944-2023
Hsu Po-yun ♂1944-
Thüring Bräm ♂1944-
Frank Corcoran ♂1944-
Patrick Marcland ♂1944-
James Dashow ♂1944-
Sytze Smit ♂1944-
Alan Lamb ♂1944-2015
Jack Body ♂1944-
Steffan Bjorklund ♂1944-
Stephen Dankner1944-
Walter Perkins ♂1944-
Anna Bofill Levi ♀1944-
Dion Buhagiar ♂1944-
Zdzisław Wysocki ♂1944-
Walter Proni ♂1944-
Morton Nyord ♂1944-
Bernard Naudy1944-
Veit Erdmann1944-
Richard Elfyn Jones1944-
Michel Naudy1944-
Valery Arsoumanov1944-
Goff Richards1944-
Peter Mathews1944-
Jens Keller1944-
Christopher Gunning1944-
Niels la Cour1944-
James Quitman Mulholland1944-
James Hartway1944-
Giampaolo Coral1944-
André Richard1944-
Atsutada Otaka1944-
Robert C. Bachmann1944-
Paul Crossley1944-
Paul Drayton1944-
Peter Streiff1944-
Calimiero Soares1944-
James Culp1944-2024
Péter Eötvös ♂1944-
Yuan-kai Bao ♂1944-
York Höller ♂1944-
John Rea ♂1944-
Ivar Lunde ♂1944-2015
Beatriz Lockhart ♀