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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: 76Lorenzo Palomo
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
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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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Anita Hewitt-Jones ♀1926-1995
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Stanislaw Mronski ♂1926-2016
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Franco Evangelisti ♂1926-2020
Norman Bearcroft ♂1926-2003
Tish Daija ♂1926-2018
Tomás Villajos ♂1926-1998
Pierre Villette ♂1926-2023
Carl Theodor Hütterott ♂1926-2000
Barney Childs ♂1926-1958
Roberto Falabella ♂1926-2000
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Arsène Souffriau ♂1926-1979
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Celso Garrido Lecca ♂1926-2003
Heinz Kiessling ♂1926-2012
İlhan Mimaroğlu ♂1926-2018
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