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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: 76Lorenzo Palomo
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age: 75Peter Fortig
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age: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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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
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age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90
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Random composer timeline fragment
1643-1690
Bartolomeo Baldrati ♂1643-1685
Marx Augustin ♂1643-1721
Johann Kortkamp ♂1643-1700
Vojtech Pelikan1643-1722
Mikulas Frantisek Xaver Wentzely1643-1729
Pietro Marchitelli1643-1712
José Solana1643-1676
Georg Ludwig Agricola1643-1717
Melchior d' Ardespin1643-1711
Christian Demelius1643-1722
Jan Adams (Johann Adam) Reinken ♂1644-1685
Ignazio Albertini ♂1644-1694
Pierre Richard Menault ♂1644-1704
Georg Christoph Strattner ♂1644-1718
Václav Karel Holan Rovenský ♂1644-1662
Maria Cattarina Calegari ♀1644-1726
Bartolomeo Girolamo Laurenti ♂1644-1675
Cornelia Calegari ♀1644-1684
Johann Albrecht Kreß ♂1644-1709
Gottfried Wegner ♂1644-1702
Thomas Eisenhut ♂1644-1710
Johann Wolfgang Franck ♂1644-1704
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber ♂1644-1703
Georg Christoph Leuttner ♂1644-1712
Juan Bautista José Cabanilles ♂1644-1700
Jean Rousseau ♂1644-1728
Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco ♂1645-1717
Christian Ritter ♂1645-1717
Pierre Bouteiller ♂1645-1712
Carlo Ambrogio Lonati ♂1645-1679
Jan Pieterszoon vander Wielen ♂1645-1680
Angelo Vitali ♂1645-1692
John Reading ♂1645-1704
Marc-Antoine Charpentier ♂1645-1713
Nicola Matteis ♂1645-1676
Francesco Asioli ♂1645-1715
Gottfried Vopelius ♂1645-1715
Basilius Petritz ♂1645-1700
August Kühnel ♂1645-1700
Louis Joliet ♂1645-1705
Johann Lohner ♂1645-1706
Andreas Werckmeister ♂1646-1712
Juan de Araujo ♂1646-1717
Johann Fischer1646-1736
Daniel Henstridge1646-1712
Rupert Ignaz Mayr1646-1682
Severus Gastorius1646-1716
Harald Vallerius1646-1706
Guillaume Poitevin