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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
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age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
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Random composer timeline fragment
1546-1587
Giulio Abondante ♂1546-1598
Sebastian Hasenknopf ♂1546-1607
Michael Tonsor ♂1546-1617
Arcangelo Crivelli1546-1610
Joachim a Burck1546-1613
Johann Steuerlein1546-1598
Antonius Gosswin1546-1587
John Black1546-1597
Cyriacus Schneegass ♂1547-1586
Georges De la Hèle ♂1547-1605
Manuel Mendes ♂1547-1607
Luzzasco Luzzaschi ♂1547-1604
Antoine Barbe1547-1592
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri1547-1599
Cristofano Malvezzi1547-1615
Ludovico Torti1547-1614
Melchior Bischoff ♂1548-1611
Tomás Luis de Victoria ♂1548-1614
Johann Georg Schott ♂1548-1594
Balduin Hoyoul ♂1548-1614
Giovanni (Jean) de Macque ♂1548-1600
Juan Ginés Pérez de la Parra ♂1548-1591
Jeronimo de Aliseda1548-1614
Lambert de Sayve1549-1621
Francesco Soriano ♂1549-1609
Eustache du Caurroy ♂1549-1621
Ippolito Fiorini1549-1590
Alessandro Spontone1549-1596
Giovanni Battista Mosto1549-1626
Bernardo Clavijo del Castillo1549-1624
Costanzo Antegnati ♂1549-1617
Kaspar Ulenberg ♂1550-1602
Anthony Holborne ♂1550-1605
Martin de Villanueva ♂1550-1517
Orazio Nantermi ♂1550-1626
James Harding ♂1550-1603
Jan [Joannes] Tollius ♂1550-1617
Jeronimo de Peraza ♂1550-1615
Mikolaj Zielenski ♂1550-1619
Mathias de Sayve ♂1550-1613
Pomponio Nenna ♂1550-1618
Pedro de Cristo ♂1550-1602
Emilio de Cavalieri1550-1612
Carlo Ardesi1550-1592
Joachim Belitz1550-1612
Antonio Archilei1550-1622
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi1550-1603
Johannes Herold1550-1609
Ippolito Baccusi1550-1617
Giuliano Paratico