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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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Saturday, April 27, 2024
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age: 88Aribert Reimann
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age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
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Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
Latest news
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Jack Ossewaarde ♂1918-1993
Douglas Mews ♂1918-
Sergueï Barsoukov ♂1918-2001
Willem Strietman ♂1918-1990
Jean Le Capon ♂1918-1995
Neil Saunders1918-1992
Robert Docker1918-1988
Ray Martin1918-2001
Abel Carlevaro1918-
Alain Payette1918-1994
Olivier Alain1918-2006
Emil Cossetto1918-2000
Louis Applebaum1918-1982
Siegfried Barchet1918-1980
Walter Susskind1918-1980
Tauno Pylkkanen1918-1980
Archibald James Potter1918-2004
Liviu Comes1918-1972
Eero Sipila1918-2002
Juan Garcia Esquivel1918-1992
César Augusto Ribeiro Morais ♂1918-2005
Gerassimos Miliaressis ♂1918-1996
Gottfried von Einem ♂1918-1982
Kara (Gara) Karayev ♂1918-1969
Jacob do Bandolim ♂1918-2001
Paul Huber ♂1918-2016
Mariano Mores ♂1918-1996
Frank Wigglesworth ♂1918-1970
Bernd Alois Zimmermann ♂1918-2013
Johannes H.E. Koch ♂1918-2007
Matilde Salvador ♀1918-2006
Philip Cranmer ♂1918-2019
Enrique Iturriaga ♂1918-2004
M. Searle Wright ♂1918-1984
Godfrey Ridout ♂1918-1991
Argeliers León ♂1918-1994
Koudous Khodjamiarovitch Koujamiarov ♂1918-1980
Frank Cordell ♂1918-2016
Jan van Dijk ♂1918-
Marcelo Koc ♂1918-1979
Branimir Sakač ♂1918-1996
Lila Lalauni ♀1918-2003
Lina Pires de Campos ♀1918-2005
George Rochberg ♂1918-2000
Herbert Brun ♂1918-2007
Carter Harman ♂1918-1985
Lorne M. Betts ♂1918-1989
Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer ♂1918-1991
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