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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: 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
Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
1914-1968
Eyvin Andersen ♂1914-1982
Vincent Gambau ♂1914-1980
Vadim Gomoliaka ♂1914-2001
Sixten Sylvan ♂1914-1986
Yohanan Boehm ♂1914-1964
Albe Vidaković ♂1914-2015
Wally Karveno ♀1914-2004
Jean Louël ♂1914-1973
Arnold Richardson ♂1914-1982
Charles Mills ♂1914-1985
Kenny Clarke ♂1914-1987
Artur Santos ♂1914-2009
Kiyoshige Koyama ♂1914-2001
Dimitris Dragatakis ♂1914-2002
Josée Vigneron-Ramackers ♀1914-1997
Adam Świerzyński ♂1914-1997
George Bassman ♂1914-1994
Ralph Hermann ♂1914-2001
Larry Adler ♂1914-2012
Menelaos Pallandios ♂1914-1982
George Kleinsinger ♂1914-1995
Jules Bouquet ♂1914-1942
Helmut Brautigam ♂1914-2000
Baldwin Bergersen ♂1914-1989
Witold Rowicki ♂1914-1982
William Southcombe Lloyd Webber ♂1914-1988
Jan Kapr ♂1914-1972
Carl Olof Anderberg ♂1914-2012
Suzanne Joly ♀1914-1995
Michel Leclerc ♂1914-1993
César Guerra-Peixe ♂1914-1990
Paul Tortelier ♂1914-1980
Sonny Burke ♂1914-1983
Robert Gross ♂1914-1990
Héctor Ayala ♂1914-2000
Mogens Bang ♂1914-1977
Jiří Reinberger ♂1914-2008
Wilfrid Mellers ♂1914-2004
Skúli Halldórsson ♂1914-1989
Emile Martin ♂1914-2000
Ángel Lasala ♂1914-1962
Pierre Froidebise ♂1914-2015
Guido Masanetz ♂1914-2010
Cacilda Borges-Barbosa ♀1914-1993
Sun Ra ♂1914-1988
Maurice Blackburn ♂1914-1955
Harry Parr Davies ♂1914-1977
Hugh Le Caine ♂1914-2006
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