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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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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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Maija Einfelde ♀1939-2022
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Jerré Tanner ♂1939-2000
Dulcie Holland ♀1939-
Michael J. Lewis ♂1939-
Roger Tessier ♂1939-
Gian Paolo Chiti ♂1939-
Tigran Mansurian ♂1939-1978
Claude François ♂1939-2018
Evžen Zámečník ♂1939-
John Rimmer ♂1939-2014
Patric Standford ♂1939-
Barbara Kolb ♀1939-
Urs Peter Schneider ♂1939-
Marlos Nobre de Almeida ♂1939-2005
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Neil Sedaka ♂1939-
Stavros Xarhakos ♂1939-2022
Jost Meier ♂1939-2023
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Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko ♂1939-2018
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Andrew Rudin ♂1939-
Jennifer Fowler ♀1939-2015
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