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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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Richard M. Sherman
Saturday, May 25, 2024
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age: 86Richard Horowitz
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age: 75Peter Fortig
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age: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
Thursday, March 21, 2024
age: 88Aribert Reimann
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
age: 88James Whitbourn
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age: 60George Newson
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age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
Monday, March 4, 2024
age: 82
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Random composer timeline fragment
1592-1670
Cornelis Thymanszoon Padbrue ♂1592-1649
Henri de L'Enclos ♂1592-1656
Andreas Rauch ♂1592-1660
Paul Auget ♂1592-1678
John Jenkins ♂1592-1606
Pedro Bermudes1592-1667
Melchior Schildt1592-1656
Pierre de La Barre1592-1637
Juraj [Jiří, Jiřik, Georg] Tranovský ♂1592-1657
Tobias Michael ♂1592-1625
Erhard Büttner ♂1592-1665
Domenico Mazzocchi ♂1593-1625
Truid Aagesen ♂1593-1637
Christian Michael ♂1593-1676
Claudia Rusca ♀1593-1660
Francesco Bazzini ♂1593-1648
Giovanni Sansoni1593-1637
Heinrich Grimm1593-1661
Gottfried Scheidt1593-1650
Vicente Garcia1593-1635
Johann Ulrich Steigleder ♂1593-1647
Johann Dilliger ♂1594-
Richard Farnaby ♂1594-1604
Francesco Del Pomo ♂1594-1665
Tarquinio Merula ♂1594-1667
Francesco Manelli ♂1594-1657
William Mure ♂1594-1680
Simpliciano Olivo ♂1594-1648
Mathaeus Apelles von Lowenstern ♂1594-1659
Benedikt Lechler ♂1594-1651
Giovanni Battista Gagliano ♂1595-1630
Johann Nauwach ♂1595-1655
Marco Soares Pereira ♂1595-1679
Antonio Maria Abbatini ♂1595-1642
Giovanni Battista Buonamente ♂1595-1654
Fabian Ximeno Perez ♂1595-1651
Bartolomeo Montalbano ♂1595-1629
Jonas Zornicht ♀1595-1650
Gasparo Zanetti1595-1651
Johann Klemm1595-
Antonio Ferraro1595-1660
Johannes Praetorius1595-1642
Miguel de Arizo1595-1631
Matthias Spiegler1595-1641
Orazio Michi1595-1653
Rudolph Georg1595-1639
Richard Nicholson1595-1650
Giacinto Merulo ♂1595-1674
John Wilson ♂1595-1662
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