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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.
Recently deceased composers
Jean Musy
Saturday, April 27, 2024
age: 76Lorenzo Palomo
Saturday, April 13, 2024
age: 86Richard Horowitz
Saturday, April 13, 2024
age: 75Peter Fortig
Friday, April 12, 2024
age: 90Phil Nimmons
Friday, April 5, 2024
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
Monday, March 4, 2024
age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
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Antonio Cornazano ♂1430-1479
Albrecht Lesch ♂1430-1497
William Haute ♂1430-1479
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John Hothby ♂1430-1492
Antoine Busnois ♂1430-1460
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Richard Hygons ♂1435-1499
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Hans Folz ♂1440-1547
Erasmus Lapicida ♂1440-1518
Gaspard van Waarbecke ♂1440-1498
Johannes Martini ♂1440-1491
Bartolomeo Ramos de Pareia ♂1443-1485
Rudolph Agricola ♂1445-1495
Hayne van Ghizeghem ♂1445-1527
Heinrich Finck ♂1445-1505
Adam von Fulda ♂1445-1501
Johannes de Stokem ♂1445-1487
Gilbert Banastre ♂1445-1518
Loyset Compère ♂1446-1506
Alexander Agricola ♂1449-1492
Lorenzo de Medici ♂1450-1515
Robert Wylkynson ♂1450-1509
William Newark ♂1450-1515
Matthaeus Pipelare ♂1450-1517
Heinrich Isaac ♂1450-1490
Thomas Phelyppis ♂1450-1521
Josquin des Préz ♂1450-1507
Bertrandus Vaqueras ♂1450-1526
Hans Judenkunig ♂1450-1514
Henry Prentes ♂1450-1504
Walter Lambe ♂1451-1522
Franchinus Gaffurius ♂1453-1500
John Browne ♂1454-1494
Angelo Poliziano ♂1455-1511
Jean Ghiselin ♂1455-1521
Johannes Carnago ♂1455-1491
Jacobus (Jacques) Barbireau ♂1455-1521
John Hampton ♂1455-1517
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