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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: 76Richard Horowitz
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age: 75Lorenzo Palomo
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age: 86Peter Fortig
Friday, April 12, 2024
age: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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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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Ãngelo Carrero ♂1826-
Enea Gardana ♂1826-1899
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Anton Seiffert1826-1905
Ignacy Krzyzanowski1826-1901
Albert Rubenson1826-1880
Hermann Berens1826-1893
Disma Fumagalli1826-1899
Robert Lowry1826-1881
José da Costa e Silva1826-1853
Alexander Stadtfeld1826-1893
Adolphe Valentin Sellenick1826-1890
Théodore Lajarte1826-1883
Hermann Zopff1826-1892
Nikodem Biernacki1826-1904
Henry Hiles1826-1905
Walter Macfarren1826-1910
Napoléon Alkan1826-1858
Pierre Christophe Charles Galibert1826-1902
Constantin Bender1826-1910
Timothy Matthews1826-1882
Johann Carl Eschmann1826-1895
Jean Joseph Bott1826-1894
Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov1826-1905
Charles Steggall1826-
Joseph Henri Altes1826-1857
Moritz Hauser1826-1897
William Thomas Best1826-1910
Georges Mathias1826-1871
Franz Gruber1826-1869
Piotr Studzinski1826-1903
Nicolo Coccon1826-1871
Bernard Courtois dit Bernardin1826-1881
Marcial del Adalid y Gurrea1826-1882
Guglielmo Quarenghi1826-1889
Nicolau Guanabens1826-1905
Ernst Pauer1826-1886
Léon Jean Jacquard1826-1882
Henry Tucker1826-1899
Hans Balatka1826-1854
Fanny Hunerwadel1826-1904
Frans Coenen1826-1901
Francesco Ruggi1826-1878
Franz von Holstein ♂1826-1913
John Thomas ♂1826-1917
Ludwig (Léon Fyodorovich) Minkus ♂1826-1901
Ivar Christian Hallström ♂1826-1848
Hugo Staehle ♂1826-1864
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