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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: 91Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
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Thomas Benjamin ♂1921-2002
Basil Smallman ♂1921-2010
Trevor Sharpe ♂1921-1999
Bozidar Kantuser ♂1921-1981
Georges Brassens1921-1957
Robert Kurka1921-1997
Pierre Jouvin1921-
William Stalnaker1921-1969
Laci Boldemann1921-1973
Jack Marshall1921-1968
Todd T. Matshikiza1921-1968
Ludvik Podest1921-1980
Yoshiro Irino1921-1976
Robert Fleming1921-1979
Louie L. White1921-2003
William Blezard1921-1990
Andrzej Dobrowolski1921-1984
Fritz Geissler1921-2003
Richard Dirksen1921-1980
Eberhard Bonitz1921-1984
Jan Novak1921-1994
Gyorgy Cziffra1921-1996
Dmitri Fampas1921-2014
Seymour Barab ♂1921-1999
Leo Smit ♂1921-2001
Richard E. Averre ♂1921-2011
André Hodeir ♂1921-1983
Arno Arutyunovich Babajanian ♂1921-2000
Todor Popov ♂1921-2021
Juan Vicente Más Quiles ♂1921-2005
Alfred Reed ♂1921-2010
Stefan de Haan ♂1921-2004
Emil Lerescu ♂1921-1998
Johannes Driessler ♂1921-1981
František Chaun ♂1921-2002
Jorge Oscar Pickenhayn ♂1921-1987
Adrian Cruft ♂1921-1968
Jeanne Demessieux ♀1921-2013
Oskar Feltsman ♂1921-2017
Claude René Georges Pascal ♂1921-1999
Ruth Gipps ♂1921-2006
Zvonimir Ciglic ♂1921-2000
Adam Khudoyan ♂1921-2017
Ingvar Lidholm ♂1921-2008
Werner Thärichen ♂1921-2007
András Szöllősy ♂1921-1997
Vladimír Sommer ♂1921-2016
Donald H. White ♂1921-1997
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