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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: 86Richard Horowitz
Saturday, April 13, 2024
age: 75Peter Fortig
Friday, April 12, 2024
age: 90Phil Nimmons
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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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1837-1867
Raffaele Gentili ♂1837-1911
Max Zenger1837-1876
Alfred Holmes1837-1922
Josef Werner1837-1908
Auguste Charles Léonard Vianesi1837-1908
Luca Fumagalli1837-1894
Louis Mayeur1837-1918
Willem Coenen1837-1894
William Charles Levey1837-1903
Charles N. Allen1837-1879
Adolf Jensen1837-1891
Albert Rudolph Fasy1837-1921
Vladislav Zelenski1837-1913
Alfred Gaul1837-1898
Franz Behr1837-1895
Wilhelm Ramsoe1837-1876
Rafael Aceves y Lozano1837-1916
John Francis Barnett1837-1914
Leo van Gheluwe1837-1931
Otto Winter-Hjelm1837-1914
Karl Attenhofer1837-1899
John R. Sweney1837-1891
James Austin Butterfield1837-1892
Casimir Théophile Lailliet1837-1901
Edouard Broustet de Saint-Jean1837-1882
Frederick Godfrey1837-1914
Georgina Weldon1837-1912
Josef Wieniawski1837-1893
Wilhelm Czerwinski1837-1898
Tigran Tchoukhatjian1837-1909
Konstantin Burgel1837-1892
Théodore Lalliet1837-1892
Ernest Guiraud1837-1914
Valentin de Zubiaurre1837-1901
Eugène Emile Diaz de la Pena1837-1907
Carlotta Ferrari1837-1917
Frederik Herbert Torrington1837-1923
Karl Adolf Lorenz1837-1879
Oscar Camps y Soler1837-1909
Benjamin Lang1837-1910
Milii Balakirev ♂1837-1920
Carlos Troyer ♂1837-1911
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant ♂1837-1920
Smith Newell Penfield ♂1837-1888
Julius Weissenborn ♂1837-1871
Charles-Alexis Chauvet ♂1837-1895
Jan Kleczyński ♂1837-1927
Paul Lacombe ♂1837-1922
Hans Sommer ♂