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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: 86Richard Horowitz
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age: 75Peter Fortig
Friday, April 12, 2024
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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Pierre Clereau ♂1519-1545
Loyset Piéton ♂1519-1573
John Thorne1519-1586
Giulio Fiesco1519-1595
Thoinot (Jehan) Arbeau ♂1520-1580
Gerard van Turnhout ♂1520-1560
Pedro Guerrero ♂1520-1560
Waclaw z Szamotul ♂1520-1550
Perissone Cambio ♂1520-1599
Adrian Le Roy ♂1520-1595
Ludovicus Episcopius ♂1520-1591
Joan Brudieu ♂1520-1578
Francesco Portinaro ♂1520-1562
Perissone Cambio ♂1520-1581
Antonio Valente ♂1520-1573
Homer Herpol ♂1520-1573
Benedict de Drusina ♂1520-1586
Richard de Renvoisy1520-1585
Lambert Courtois1520-1587
Melchor Robledo1520-1571
Francesco Bonardo Perissone1520-1593
Christoph Hecyrus1520-1570
Jean de Bonmarche1520-1591
Vincenzo Galilei1520-1581
Heliseo Ghibel1520-1570
Gregorio Silvestre Rodrigues1520-1579
Giacomo Gorzanis1520-1551
Jean Lestainnier1520-1569
Thomas Caustun1521-1603
Philip de Monte ♂1521-1590
Alamanne de Layolle1521-1589
Alessandro Milleville1521-1574
Sebastian Ochsenkum1522-1597
Maximilian Guilliaud ♂1522-1590
Giovanni Maria de Rossi1522-1596
Valentin Rab1522-1568
Antonio di Becchi1523-1546
Balthasar Paminger ♂1523-1566
Richard Edwards ♂1523-1552
Perino Fiorentino ♂1523-1552
Francesco da Milano1524-1557
Girolamo Parabosco ♂1524-1559
Simon Joly ♂1525-1589
Wolfgang Figulus ♂1525-1611
Guillaume le Boulanger de Vaumesnil ♂1525-1597
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Claude Gervaise ♂1525-1580
Richard Farrant ♂1525-1561
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