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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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Sunday, June 2, 2024
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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
1896-1973
Yitzhak Edel ♂1896-1964
Juan José Mantecón ♂1896-1982
Maria Teresa Prieto ♀1896-1978
Jacobo Ficher ♂1896-1964
Pierre Carraz ♂1896-1979
Marc Briquet ♂1896-1978
Maria Bach1896-1973
Eino Linnala1896-1976
Frutuoso Vianna1896-1982
Jenö Adam1896-
E.M.Monica Smith1896-1970
Ray Henderson1896-1983
Helge Bonnen1896-1966
Juan Maria Thomas1896-1954
Fernande Decruck1896-1948
Vladimir Polivka1896-1980
Erling Brene1896-1958
Eduard Erdmann1896-1961
Werner Richard Heymann1896-1976
Maurice Jacobson1896-1979
Gordon Slater1896-1987
George Thalben-Ball1896-1961
Elmer Diktonius1896-1973
Walter Abendroth1896-1942
Francis Bousquet1896-1969
Aldo Giuntini1896-1963
Félix Krohn1896-1968
Leo Van den Broeck1896-1975
Alberto Hemsi1896-1994
Hans J. Salter1896-1981
Helma Autenrieth1896-1980
Max Brand1896-1963
Arnold Foster1896-1975
Julian Menendez1896-1960
Dimitri Mitropoulos1896-1972
Giulio Confalonieri1896-1962
Mikhaïlo Verikivski1896-1953
Juan Carlos Cobian1896-1977
Petko Stainov1896-1975
Johan Hye-Knudsen1896-1964
Nacio Herb Brown1896-1973
Ernst Lothar von Knorr1896-1981
Hans Fleischer1896-1963
Fritz Reuter1896-1943
Ralph Erwin1896-1963
Tadeusz Szeligowski1896-1976
Agostino Gabucci ♂1896-1967
Jaromir Weinberger ♂1896-1967
Ernest Steffan ♂