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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
age: 76Richard Horowitz
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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age: 88Aribert Reimann
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age: 88James Whitbourn
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age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
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Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
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Johann Heinrich Hesse ♂1712-1761
Anton Giranek ♂1712-1795
Sayat Nova ♂1712-1795
John Christopher Smith1712-1772
François Lucas Tille1712-1765
Charles Maclean1712-1762
Jan Josef Brixi1712-1772
Jan Brixides1712-1769
Paul Charles Durant1712-1771
Isfrid Kayser1712-1786
John Stanley ♂1712-1786
Frederick II (the Great) ♂1712-1781
Giacomo Puccini ♂1712-1778
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ♂1712-1793
Manuel Gonima ♂1712-1758
Bernhard Christian Weber ♂1713-
James Corfe ♂1713-1784
Giuseppe Arena ♂1713-1781
Juan de Ledesma ♂1713-1768
Mateusz Zwierzchowski1713-1800
Christian Friedrich Schale1713-1767
Johann Henrik Freithoff1713-1784
Jean-Baptiste Canavas1713-1801
Nicola Sala1713-1806
Paolo Scalabrini1713-1779
Raphael Weiss ♂1713-1797
Pierre de Jelyotte ♂1713-1752
Jan Benda ♂1713-1797
Antoine Dauvergne ♂1713-1780
Johann Ludwig Krebs ♂1714-1772
Edmund Pascha ♂1714-1800
Giambattista Mancini ♂1714-1780
António da Costa ♂1714-1782
Pedro António Avondano ♂1714-1762
Giacomo Giuseppe Saratelli ♂1714-1776
Joseph Canavas ♂1714-1783
Johann Gottlieb Wiedner ♂1714-1785
Gottfried August Homilius ♂1714-1788
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ♂1714-1782
Carlo Giovanni Testori ♂1714-1787
Johan Daniel Berlin ♂1714-1787
Christoph Willibald von Gluck ♂1714-1774
Nicolò [Niccolò] Jommelli ♂1714-1759
Jean Benoit Leclair ♂1714-1778
Laurent Desmazures ♂1714-1781
Johann Siebenkäs ♂1714-1767
Per Brant ♂1715-1795
Georg Gottfried Petri ♂1715-1782
Francesco Maggiore ♂1715-1775
Georg Siegmund Gebel ♂