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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: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
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age: 88Aribert Reimann
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
age: 88James Whitbourn
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age: 60George Newson
Friday, March 8, 2024
age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
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age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
1596-1668
Giovanni Rovetta ♂1596-1636
Vinko Jelić ♂1596-1663
Heinrich Scheidemann ♂1596-1679
Juan de Torres ♂1596-1636
Giacinto Bondioli ♂1596-1643
Gabriel Voigtlander ♂1596-1676
Robert Parsons ♂1596-1687
Constantijn Huygens ♂1597-1644
Joan Albert Ban ♂1597-1662
Galeazzo Sabbatini ♂1597-1664
Charles Racquet ♂1597-1632
Samuel Michael ♂1597-1662
Andreas Duben ♂1597-1658
Henry Molle1597-1622
Eleuterio Guazzi ♂1597-1646
Virgilio Mazzocchi ♂1598-1640
Giovanni Battista Ala ♂1598-1670
Johannes van der Elst ♂1598-1680
Giovanni Battista Fasolo ♂1598-1631
Juan Perez Bocanegra ♂1598-1660
Pedro de Esperanca ♂1598-1653
Luigi Rossi ♂1598-1668
Johann Decker ♂1598-1627
Michelangelo Capellini1598-
Georg Wiezel1598-1669
Laurentius Erhard ♂1598-1662
Johannes Crüger ♂1599-1635
Anton Holzner ♂1599-1657
John Hilton ♂1599-1681
Pierre Gautier1599-1663
Thomas Selle1599-1676
Etienne Moulinie1600-1648
Mario Capuana ♂1600-1656
Richard Portman ♂1600-1668
Odoardo Ceccarelli ♂1600-1659
Wolfgang Christoph Agricola ♂1600-1637
Simplicio Todeschi ♂1600-1678
Girolamo Avanzolini ♂1600-1651
Marcin Mielczewski ♂1600-1653
Manuel Correia ♂1600-1682
Luigi Battiferri ♂1600-1675
Girolamo Fantini ♂1600-1648
Jean Boyer ♂1600-1639
Carlo Farina ♂1600-1650
Nicolo Fontei1600-1666
Francesco Della Porta1600-1660
Fernando de Almeida1600-1661
Stephen Nau1600-1653
Gabriel Naude1600-1649
Bernardino Alberghetti