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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: 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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Jan Sandstrom1954-
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