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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
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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
Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
1577-1623
Bartolomeo Mutis ♂1577-1617
Robert Jones ♂1577-1637
Erasmus Sartorius ♂1577-1620
Filippo Nicoletti1577-1646
Vincenzo de Grandis1577-1623
Orazio Brognonico1577-1633
John Maynard ♂1577-1642
Giovanni Battista Caletti ♂1577-1613
Giovanni Righi ♂1577-1647
Giovanni del Turco ♂1577-1630
Antonio Brunelli ♂1578-1641
Erasmo Marotta1578-1658
Valentin Dretzel1578-1644
Francisco de Santiago1578-1640
Agostino Agazzari ♂1579-1639
Melchior Franck ♂1579-1641
John Amner ♂1579-1612
Valerius Otto1579-1645
Heinrich Steuccius1579-1610
William Wigthorp1579-
Johann Feldmayer1580-1640
Orindio Bartolini ♂1580-1638
Thomas Holmes ♂1580-1648
Thomas Ford ♂1580-1661
Carl van der Hoeven ♂1580-1651
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger ♂1580-1650
Johan Lorentz ♂1580-1649
Bellerofonte Castaldi ♂1580-1633
Francesco Genuino ♂1580-1646
Domenico Brunetti1580-1644
Hugh Davies1580-1626
Filippo Albini1580-1628
Stephan Hoepner1580-
Andreas Finold1580-1644
Tomaso Cecchino1580-1650
Giulio Cesare Ardemanio1580-1627
Gregor Schnitzkius1580-1660
David Haiden1580-1640
Andreana Basile1580-1655
Jacques Cordier1580-1626
Hieronymus Bildstein1580-1605
Gioseppe Casilli1580-1616
Heinrich Hartmann1580-1626
Hans Nielsen1580-1632
Stephan Faber1580-1615
Pietro Maria Marsolo1580-1644
Ottavio Catalani1580-1631
Domenico Guami1580-1648
Michael East1580-1630
Richard Dering