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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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Jean Musy
Saturday, April 27, 2024
age: 76Lorenzo Palomo
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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
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
age: 60George Newson
Friday, March 8, 2024
age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
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age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
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Random composer timeline fragment
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Perino Fiorentino ♂1523-1566
Richard Edwards ♂1523-1546
Balthasar Paminger ♂1523-1552
Francesco da Milano1524-1559
Simon Joly ♂1524-1557
Girolamo Parabosco ♂1525-1560
Claude Gervaise ♂1525-1597
Joachimus Fridericus Fritzius ♂1525-1561
Pierre Vallette ♂1525-1580
Richard Farrant ♂1525-1611
Guillaume le Boulanger de Vaumesnil ♂1525-1589
Wolfgang Figulus ♂1525-1586
Erasmus Rotenbucher1525-1591
John Blitheman1525-1592
Servaes van der Meulen1525-1584
Julien Belin1525-1583
Johann Selner1525-1598
Georg Dietrich1525-1617
Johann Knofel1525-1602
Giovanni Leonardo dell' Arpa1525-1577
Girolamo Cavazzoni1525-1578
Johannes Mangon1525-1589
Ludwig Daser1525-1582
Johannes Reusch1525-1594
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ♂1526-1603
Gabriel da Annunciacao1526-1603
Sophonias Paminger ♂1526-1585
Marc-Antoine de Muret ♂1527-1575
Annibale Padovano ♂1527-1606
Matthaus Ludecus1527-1605
Fabritio Caroso1527-1578
Johann Walter1527-1558
Hermann Finck ♂1527-1586
Johannes Leisentrit ♂1528-1600
Claude Le Jeune ♂1528-1582
Johannes de Cleve ♂1528-1601
Costanzo Porta ♂1528-1592
Francisco de Montanos1528-1592
Nicolaus Selnecker1528-1596
Thomas Whythorne1528-1599
Francisco Guerrero ♂1529-1566
John Hall ♂1529-1591
Vincentio Bastini1529-1591
William Mundy1530-1572
Robert Parsons ♂1530-1587
Vincenzo Bellavere ♂1530-1580
Juan Navarro ♂1530-1597
Elias Nikolaus Ammerbach ♂1530-1603
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