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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: 71Víctor Urbán
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age: 90Jean Musy
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age: 76Richard Horowitz
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age: 75Lorenzo Palomo
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age: 86Peter Fortig
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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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Basilio Cossa1617-1692
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Nikolaus Hasse1617-1692
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José Marín ♂1618-1670
Massimiliano Neri ♂1618-1683
Solomon Eccles ♂1618-1701
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Johann Rosenmüller ♂1619-1651
Filiberto Laurenzi1619-1678
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