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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: 86Peter Fortig
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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
Latest news
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William Harold Leigh-Sharpe ♂1880-1941
Victor Gallois ♂1880-1941
Victor Schertzinger1880-1939
Franz Joseph Moser1880-1976
Adelmo Damerini1880-1918
Alberto Iginio Randegger1880-1967
Albert Szirmai1880-1956
Ianko Binenbaum1880-1960
Clarence Cameron White1880-1943
Raffaele Casimiri1880-1966
Percy Kahn1880-1935
Théodore Pease Stearns1880-1952
Antonio Guarnieri1880-1958
Edouard Flament1880-1968
Maurice Reuchsel1880-1937
Attilio Brugnoli1880-1969
Josef Cernik1880-1967
Alexeï Krasnotovski1880-1942
Pablo Luna1880-1943
Theodorou Spathy1880-1950
Arthur Frank Tate1880-1958
Arthur Shepherd1880-1923
Félix Fourdrain1880-1955
Homer Rodeheaver1880-1948
Ethel Barns1880-1955
Francesco Balilla Pratella1880-1918
David de Sousa1880-1942
Youliya Lazarevna Veysberg1880-1960
Clemens Schmalstich1880-1953
Alexander Russell1880-1945
Rudolf Karel1880-1953
Eric de Lamarter1880-1956
Nemesio Otano1880-1952
Charles Ancliffe1880-1928
Nora Bayes1880-1952
Julien Fernand Vaubourgoin1880-1967
Carl Schuricht1880-1953
Irma von Halacsy1880-1935
Mariano San Miguel1880-1920
Andrzej Andrzejowski1880-1938
Ernst Boehe1880-1969
Jaime Pahissa1880-1952
Bruno Barilli1880-1935
William Bastard1880-1950
Otto Vrieslander1880-1956
Ethel Scarborough1880-1948
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