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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: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
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age: 88Lita Grier
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age: 87
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Antonio Spadina ♂1822-1891
Giulio Litta (Visconti Arese) ♂1822-1896
Karl Reinthaler1822-1909
Johann Georg Herzog1822-1896
Henry Leslie1822-1890
Alois Strohmayer1822-1890
Henry Wylde1822-1862
Adolf Bergt1822-1877
John Roberts1822-1890
Marianna Creti de Rocchis1822-1901
Bernhard Mettenleiter1822-1870
Joaquin Gaztambide1822-1871
François Humblet1822-1885
Félix Clement1822-1903
Wilhelm Meyer-Lutz1822-1914
Lucio Campiani1822-1872
Giulio Regondi1822-1890
Edouard Gregoir1822-1853
Egide Aerts1822-1853
Theodor Uhlig1822-1876
Charles Edward Horsley1822-1897
Elizaveta Vassilievna Kochoubei1822-1899
Heinrich Ehrlich1822-1884
Charles Vervoitte1822-1906
Boris Cheremetiev1822-1904
Charles Emile Poisot1822-1863
Alfred Dufresne1822-1900
John Hopkins1822-1884
Hans Hampel1822-1896
Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski1822-1901
Alfredo (Carlo) Piatti ♂1822-1890
Nicholas Mori ♂1822-1908
Salvatore Marchesi ♂1822-1862
Andrea Butera ♂1822-1894
Armand Saintis ♂1822-1905
Franz Strauss ♂1822-1878
Eugène Gautier ♂1822-1884
Victor Massé ♂1822-1889
Giuseppe Apolloni ♂1822-1897
George Benjamin Allen ♂1822-1893
James S. Pierpont ♂1822-1898
Aristide Hignard ♂1822-1882
Joseph Joachim Raff ♂1822-1888
Rafael Hernando ♂1822-1895
Leopold Dancla ♂1822-1894
Edouard Mouzin ♂1822-1903
Luigi Arditi ♂1822-1892
Wilhelm Rust ♂1822-1893
Jan Barend Litzau ♂1822-1903
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