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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: 100Péter Eötvös
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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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Random composer timeline fragment
1818-1899
Wilhelm Rintel ♂1818-1859
Louis Henry Lavenu ♂1818-1890
José Gavalda1818-1897
Paul Meriel ♂1818-1904
Carl Helsted ♂1818-1886
José Francisco Arroyo ♂1818-1893
Dmitri Stolypin ♂1818-1881
Giulio Briccialdi ♂1818-1897
Antonio Bazzini ♂1818-1854
Georges Bousquet ♂1818-1880
Jacob Axel Josephson ♂1818-1896
Ferdinand Gumbert ♂1818-1883
Marek Konrad Sokołowski ♂1818-1892
Caroline Orger ♀1818-1885
August Pabst ♂1818-1892
Friedrich Wilhelm Tschirch ♂1818-1896
Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath ♂1818-1893
Charles Gounod ♂1818-1877
Cesare Ciardi ♂1818-1901
Edward Hopkins ♂1818-1872
Heinrich Esser ♂1818-1897
Dieudonné-Félix Godefroid ♂1818-1891
Henry Charles Litolff ♂1818-1882
Theodor Kullak ♂1818-1879
Carlo Boniforti ♂1818-1896
John Pridham ♂1818-1880
Joseph Rummel ♂1818-1869
Alexander Dreyschock ♂1818-1865
Carlo Gambini ♂1818-1892
Giacomo Treves ♂1818-1891
Stefano Golinelli ♂1818-1884
Louis Lacombe ♂1818-1885
Abramo Basevi ♂1819-1880
Eugène Déjazet ♂1819-1888
Karl Grimm ♂1819-1862
Arnaud Philippe Dancla ♂1819-1878
Ellen Dickson ♀1819-1855
Francisco Eduardo Costa1819-1887
Frantisek Gregora1819-1858
Isaac Baker Woodbury1819-1882
Vincenzo Robaudi1819-1886
Justin Holland1819-1904
William Henry Longhurst1819-1862
Francesco Anzoletti1819-1861
Albert de Saxe-Cobourg1819-1895
Charles Oberthur1819-1890
Hubert Leonard1819-1875
William Howard Glover1819-1875
Joseph Philbrick Webster