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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: 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
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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
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Johann Walter ♂1497-1579
John Heywood1497-1543
Francesco Canova da Milano1497-1533
Cosmas Alder1497-1553
Mattio Rampollini ♂1497-1543
Francesco Canova da Milano ♂1498-1566
Nicolas Martin ♂1498-1535
Jean Conseil ♂1498-1561
Julio Segni ♂1499-1562
Adrianus Petit Coclico1499-1561
Sebald Heyden1499-1580
Pietro Paolo Ragazzoni1500-1561
Luis Milán ♂1500-1565
Jacob Buus ♂1500-1569
Paolo Animuccia ♂1500-1560
Jacques Moderne ♂1500-1563
Francisco de Soto1500-1553
Cristóbal de Morales ♂1500-1567
Bartolomeo Trosylho ♂1500-1553
Johannes Aal ♂1500-1550
Luis de Narvaez ♂1500-1561
Nikolaus Herman ♂1500-1551
Albert de Rippe ♂1500-1579
Miguel de Fuenllana ♂1500-1554
Arnold von Bruck ♂1500-1560
Juan Vásquez ♂1500-1560
Robert Johnson1500-1590
Franz Eler1500-1553
Philippe van Wilder1500-1566
Wolfgang Schmeltzl1500-1563
Giovan Tomaso di Maio1500-1559
Auctor Lampadius1500-1563
Bartolomé de Escobedo1500-1553
Matthieu Lasson1500-1546
Paul Rebhuhn1500-1552
Heinrich Faber1500-1568
Guillaume Belin1500-1579
Tomaso Cimello1500-1564
Lambert de Sainne1500-1547
Gregor Peschin1500-1563
Francesco Lupino1500-1564
Jacques du Pont1500-1585
Johannes Heugel1500-1571
Giovanni Animuccia1501-1536
Anne Boleyn ♀1501-1520
Hilaire Penet ♂1502-1552
Heliodoro de Paiva ♂1502-1576
John Brimley1502-1562
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