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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
Friday, April 12, 2024
age: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
Sunday, March 24, 2024
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
Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
1561-1596
Philippe Rogier ♂1561-1623
Peter Eichmann ♂1561-1626
Elias Mertel ♂1561-1631
Juan Blas de Castro ♂1561-1633
Adam Steigleder1561-1628
Peter Philips1561-1602
Jacopo Corsi1561-1617
Caspar Fuger1561-1621
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ♂1561-1633
Jacopo Peri ♂1562-1628
John Bull ♂1562-1608
John Buchan1562-1618
Kaspar Hassler1562-1638
Francis Pilkington1562-1635
Félix Lope de Vega1562-1631
Philipp Dulichius1562-1626
Henning Dedekind ♂1563-1588
Eucharius Hoffmann ♂1563-1626
John Dowland ♂1563-1640
Giles Farnaby ♂1563-1633
Jehan Titelouze ♂1563-1619
Thomas Fritsch1563-1647
John Milton1563-1621
Georg Oesterreicher1563-1625
Rodolphe de Lassus1563-1625
Cornelis Verdonck1563-1602
Andreas Raselius1563-1628
Francesco Maria Guaitoli1563-1629
Pedro Thalesio1563-1632
Erasme de Sayve1563-1617
Ottavio Borono ♂1564-1613
Giulio Cesare Martinengo ♂1564-1598
Francisco de Peraza ♂1564-1628
Gregor Aichinger ♂1564-1626
John Daniel1564-1629
Joachim Burmeister1564-1628
Lorenzo Vecchi1564-1626
John Danyel1564-1621
Jacob Vredeman1564-1627
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana1564-1642
Galileo Galilei ♂1564-1612
Hans Leo Hassler ♂1565-1610
Richard Alison ♂1565-1646
Duarte (Eduardus) Lôbo ♂1565-1634
Bartolomeo Ratti ♂1565-1641
Leonard Woodson ♂1565-1627
Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia ♂1565-1639
Francesco Milleville ♂1565-1620
Pierre Guédron ♂