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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: 76Lorenzo Palomo
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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
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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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1915-1995
Pedro Sáenz ♂1915-1994
William Bardwell ♂1915-1940
Rudolf Wille ♂1915-2006
Giora Schuster ♂1915-1980
Sverre Bergh ♂1915-2005
Raymond Depraz ♂1915-1973
Esther Ballou1915-1980
Jean Avignon1915-1989
Leslie Kondorossy1915-1963
David Grunfeld1915-2004
Sydney Carter1915-1963
Dorian Le Gallienne1915-1972
Elek Huzella1915-1973
Esther Williamson Ballou1915-1992
Willie Dixon1915-1992
Toïvo Karki1915-1974
Farid Atrash1915-1945
Nico Richter1915-1997
Einari Marvia1915-1944
Roman Padlewski1915-2005
Kurt Graunke1915-1996
Alberto Bruni Tedeschi1915-1990
Pamela Harrison1915-1967
Billy Strayhorn1915-2010
Daniel Stirn1915-1984
Evencio Castellanos1915-2005
Alexander Brott1915-1984
Vasilis Tsitsanis ♂1915-1940
Vítězslava Kaprálová ♀1915-1996
Irving Gordon ♂1915-1996
Homer Keller ♂1915-1979
David van de Woestijne ♂1915-1999
Marcel Landowski ♂1915-1983
Anthony Lewis ♂1915-1997
Carlos Surinach ♂1915-1990
Eunice Katunda ♂1915-1984
Eliseo Pajaro ♂1915-2005
Andor Kovách ♂1915-2004
Jan Hanuš ♂1915-2009
George Perle ♂1915-2005
Berthe Di Vito-Delvaux ♀1915-2010
Robert Moffat Palmer ♂1915-2002
Alan Shulman ♂1915-1987
Vincent Persichetti ♂1915-1994
Victor Legley ♂1915-2000
Joan Trimble ♀1915-2006
Margaret Hubicki ♀1915-1986
Marcel Quinet1915-2005
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