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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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Saturday, April 27, 2024
age: 76Lorenzo Palomo
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age: 88Aribert Reimann
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age: 88James Whitbourn
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age: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
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Latest news
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Beckett Williams ♂1890-1952
Alan Murray ♂1890-1960
Jacob van Domselaer ♂1890-1961
Francis de Bourguignon1890-1980
Johannes Andersen1890-1954
Ivo Parac1890-1966
Antonio Massana1890-1945
Max Albrecht1890-1957
Montague Ewing1890-1965
Aloïs Henri Gérard Fornerod1890-1931
Juan Vert1890-1922
Alexandre Jurassovski1890-1964
John Tasker Howard1890-1968
Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad1890-1951
Pavel Ivanovitch Kovalev1890-1970
Alfred Swan1890-1972
Nikolaï Illitch Aladov1890-1964
Harold Morris1890-1957
Joseph Giuseppe Gioe1890-1962
Ernst Arnold1890-1975
Philip James1890-1966
Florentijn Jan Van der Mueren1890-1960
Semyon Semionovitch Bogateriev1890-1970
André Souris1890-1951
Constantin Nottara1890-1969
Arthur Walter Kramer1890-1983
Antal Molnár ♂1890-1978
Gershon Ephros ♂1890-1978
Marguerite Canal ♀1890-1971
Léon Algazi ♂1890-1937
Evelyn Faltis ♀1890-1978
María de Baratta ♀1890-1958
Adolfo Salazar ♂1890-1972
Michael Taube ♂1890-1957
Wilhelm Petersen ♂1890-1985
Efrem Zimbalist ♂1890-1953
Bengt Carlson ♂1890-1965
Harry Tierney ♂1890-1962
Samuel Feinberg ♂1890-1951
Mirko Polic ♂1890-1974
Edwin John Stringham ♂1890-1968
Adam Soltys ♂1890-1962
Rodolphe Mathieu ♂1890-1981
René Barbier ♂1890-1978
Mabel Wayne ♀1890-1933
Victor isidorovich Dolidze ♂1890-1970
Gonzalo Roig ♂1890-1978
Félicien Foret ♂1890-1969
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