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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: 75Lorenzo Palomo
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age: 86Peter Fortig
Friday, April 12, 2024
age: 90Phil Nimmons
Friday, April 5, 2024
age: 100Péter Eötvös
Sunday, March 24, 2024
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
Monday, March 4, 2024
age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
Latest news
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Sigismondo D’India ♂1582-1652
Gregorio Allegri ♂1582-1613
Francesco Roccia1582-1647
George Handford1582-1643
Marco da Gagliano1582-1653
Johannes Schultz1582-1643
Juan Bautista Comes1582-1649
Giovanni Valentini1582-1670
Jean Quinart1582-1628
Thomas Simpson ♂1582-1663
Severo Bonini ♂1583-1616
Robert Hales ♂1583-1629
Paolo Agostini ♂1583-1642
Nicolas Vallet ♂1583-1625
Orlando Gibbons ♂1583-1633
Robert Johnson1583-1633
Simon Besler1583-1648
Edward Herbert1583-1623
Francis Cutting1583-1644
Gabriello Puliti ♂1583-1643
Girolamo Frescobaldi ♂1584-1654
Francisco Correa de Arauxo ♂1584-1638
Daniel Friderici ♂1584-1656
Andreas Berger ♂1584-1659
Giovanni Ceresini1584-1625
Nicolo Rubini1584-1640
Michael Altenburg1584-1629
Antonio Cifra1584-1635
Melchior Teschner1584-1649
Damianus Nembri1584-1622
Cesare Zoilo1585-1617
Bernardo de Peralta Escudero ♂1585-1656
Andrea Falconieri ♂1585-1639
Henri de Remouchamps ♂1585-1637
Johann Degen1585-1636
Stefano Bernardi1585-1647
Wojciech Debolecki1585-1629
Domenico Allegri1585-1632
Jean de Bournonville1585-1666
Blanzej Derey1585-1621
Luigi Balbi1585-1645
Johann Donfrid1585-1649
Piero Benedetti1585-1655
Johann Grabbe1585-1623
Mogens Pederson1585-1637
Giovanni Battista de Bellis1585-1612
Edward Smith1585-1609
Donato Antonio Spano1585-1652
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