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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: 76Richard Horowitz
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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
Thursday, March 21, 2024
age: 88Aribert Reimann
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
age: 88James Whitbourn
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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
1778-1795
Marie-Thérèse-Louise Benaut ♀1778-
Andrea Restori ♂1778-1850
Stefano Romani1778-1832
Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer1778-1808
Anton Fischer1778-1846
Gottlob Schuberth1778-1858
Pauline Duchambge1778-1851
Karl Friedrich Rungenhagen1778-1832
Joseph Kreutzer1778-1862
Joseph Funk1778-
Christian Urban1778-1817
Louis Gianella1778-1861
Fortunato Santini1778-1866
Antonio Francesco Gaetano Pacini1778-1844
Johann Gansbacher1778-1860
André Louis Degola1778-1845
Franz Volkert1778-
Jacques Adcock1778-1861
Vincenzo Pucitta1778-1837
José de Santa Rita Marques e Silva1778-1824
José Falguera1778-1840
Friedrich Westenholz1778-1861
Alexandre Jean Boucher1778-1823
Henry Smart1778-1824
Joseph Kemp1778-1853
Nikolaus Kraft1778-1830
Franz Weiss1778-1846
Dede Efendi ♂1778-1839
José Fernando Macario Sor ♂1778-1833
Friedrich August Kanne ♂1778-1858
Sigismund Neukomm ♂1778-1830
Carl Neuner ♂1778-1845
Franz Reinelt ♂1778-1864
Henri Messemaeckers ♂1778-1837
Johann Nepomuk Hummel ♂1779-1849
Montague Philip Corri ♂1779-1854
Carlo Bigatti1779-1865
Henry Darondeau1779-1850
Stefano Pavesi1779-1852
Thomas Moore1779-1821
Angelo Maria Benincori1779-1856
John Bernard Sale1779-1848
Oliver Shaw1779-1840
Johann Baptist Schiedermayer1779-1850
Louis Alexandre Piccinni1779-1830
Michal Bojdanowicz1779-1853
Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt1779-1852
Georges Joseph Laurent Lambert1779-1848
Jean Ancot1779-1835
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