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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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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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Isa Krejci1904-1982
Adrian Beecham1904-1977
Jean Berveiller1904-1994
Guido Santorsola1904-1971
Ludwig Schmidseder1904-1955
Eino Roiha1904-1957
Artur Malawski1904-1964
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Count Basie1904-1970
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Pietro Clausetti1904-1984
George Balanchine1904-1969
Theodor Schaefer1904-1988
Manuel Rosenthal1904-1965
Carl Parrish1904-1987
Louis de Meester1904-1980
Michael Mosoeu Moerane1904-1955
Franz Syberg1904-1957
Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern1904-1997
Olive Dungan1904-1985
Jef Rottiers1904-1972
Istvan Szelenyi1904-1953
Jesus Garcia Leoz1904-1979
Moises Moleiro1904-1957
Richard Mohaupt1904-1946
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Elemer Gyulai1904-1957
Hans Brehme1904-1945
Hsing-hai Hsien1904-1961
Grigori Ginzburg1904-1988
Javier Alfonso1904-1980
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Fats Waller1904-1990
Dorothy Parke1904-1967
Fritz A. Cohen1904-1964
Prosper von Eechaute1904-1987
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Georgi Dimitrov1904-1991
Leo Arnaud1904-1963
Gabriel Rodo1904-1967
Wlodzimierz Pozniak1904-1980
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