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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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Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
1912-1990
Agustin Castellon Compos (Sabicus) ♂1912-1972
Roger Sacheverell Coke ♂1912-1982
Piet Van Egmond1912-1992
Paraskev Chadziev1912-1983
Arkadi Filipenko1912-1945
Vit Nejedli1912-1963
Simon Jurovski1912-1994
Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska1912-1974
Robert Abraham Ottosson1912-1990
André Ameller1912-1973
Alexander Ivanov Kramskoi1912-1993
Nuncio F. Mondello1912-1957
Lille Bror Soderlundh1912-2000
Barbara Pentland ♀1912-1985
Lev Abeliovich ♂1912-1980
Rudolf Escher ♂1912-2006
Richard Sennels ♂1912-1973
Orest Yevlakhov ♂1912-2004
Myron J. Roberts ♂1912-1997
Burton Lane ♂1912-2007
Zoltan Pongracz ♂1912-1971
Alfred Desenclos ♂1912-1987
Henry Krips ♂1912-1992
Keith Bissell ♂1912-2003
Julius Kowalski ♂1912-2002
Xavier Montsalvatge ♂1912-1990
Sabicas ♂1912-
Reuel Lahmer ♂1912-2007
Robert Watson Hughes ♂1912-2008
Imre Sulyok ♂1912-2000
Carlos Guastavino ♂1912-1989
Endre Szekely ♂1912-1993
Graham George ♂1912-1992
Parashkev Hadjiev ♂1912-1984
Feike Asma ♂1912-2002
Miguel Querol ♂1912-1997
Bernard Brindel ♂1912-1992
Felipe Padilla de Leon ♂1912-1987
Sicong Ma ♂1912-2005
Erik Jorgensen ♂1912-1968
Ernst Hess ♂1912-1988
Gil Evans ♂1912-2003
Arthur Victor Berger ♂1912-1997
Jean Françaix ♂1912-1975
José Luis Vidaurreta ♂1912-1975
Mukhtar Ashrafi ♂1912-1993
Lydia Auster ♀1912-1978
Don Gillis ♂1912-1958
José Pablo Garcia Moncayo ♂1912-1984
Giulio Viozzi ♂