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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: 75Peter 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: 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
1638-1697
Alessandro Grandi ♂1638-1692
Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani ♂1638-1709
Dionisio dos Anjos1638-1703
Matteo Coferati1638-1697
Johann Friedrich Meister1638-1697
Johann Paul Agricola1638-1679
Charles Couperin1638-1691
Esaias Hickmann1638-1701
Johann Ulrich Sultzberger1638-1706
Pedro Ardanaz1638-1692
Nicolas Dubut1638-1704
Antonio Solino1638-1700
Diogo Dias Melgás ♂1639-1709
António Marques Lésbio ♂1639-1678
Antonio Masini1639-1700
Jiri Evermond Koseticky1639-1691
Johann Georg Keyrleber1639-1677
Gabriel Reilich1639-1703
Alessandro Melani ♂1639-1710
Juan García de Salazar ♂1639-1720
Pietro Degli Antoni ♂1639-1682
Alessandro Stradella ♂1640-1712
Martin Hotteterre ♂1640-1720
Antonia Bembo ♀1640-1701
Carel Hacquart ♂1640-1685
Esther Elizabeth Velkiers ♀1640-1688
Franz Rost1640-1709
Cristoforo Caresana1640-1705
Giovanni Sebenico1640-1700
Andreas Christophorus Clamer1640-1672
Giovanni Antonio Boretti1640-1690
Bonaventura Aliotti1640-1707
Jean Mignon1640-1712
Moustafa Bouhourdjou Oglou Itri1640-1697
Carlo Mannelli1640-1693
Jacques-Denis Thomelin1640-1706
Sebastiano Moratelli1640-1705
Leopold I1640-1691
Diego de Torrijos1640-1687
Bartolomeo Albrici1640-1711
Christian Geist1640-1708
Giovanni Battista Draghi1640-1716
Gallot le Jeune1640-1713
Paolo Lorenzani ♂1640-1710
Gaspar Sanz ♂1640-1697
Catharina Amalia ♀1640-1700
Nicolaus Adam Strungk ♂1640-1725
Carl [Carolus, Charles] (de) Rosier ♂1641-1683
Alessandro Poglietti1641-1727
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