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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: 90Phil Nimmons
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age: 100Péter Eötvös
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age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
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age: 88Aribert Reimann
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
age: 88James Whitbourn
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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
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Carlo Alberti ♂1844-1922
Ferdinand Manns ♂1844-1890
Georges Valensin ♂1844-1920
Carl Bohm ♂1844-1891
Alfred Cellier1844-1918
Lothar Kempter1844-1936
Izydor Lotto1844-1913
Franz Kullak1844-1908
Louis Varney1844-1936
Ernest Grosjean1844-1912
Ernst Paul Flugel1844-1899
Ludwig Albrecht1844-1914
Franz Nekes1844-1916
George Martin1844-1914
Eliezer Gerovitch1844-1918
Richard Hoffmann1844-1919
Richard Metzdorff1844-1922
Enrique Barrera Gomez1844-1910
Johan Peter Selmer1844-1899
Gustav Adolph Lembcke1844-1924
Joseph Ludwig1844-1885
Gerhard Brassin1844-1929
Hermann Gradener1844-1924
G.R. Simia1844-1922
Oscar Beringer1844-1933
William Creser1844-1919
Philippe Bartholomé Rufer1844-1913
Leander Schlegel1844-1932
Emile Mathieu1844-1918
Alfred Arthur1844-1924
Frederick Bridge1844-1913
Stephen Adams1844-1920
Odoardo Barri1844-1906
Constanz Berneker1844-1905
Edward Dannreuther1844-1926
Emile Paladilhe1844-1915
Miguel Nieto1844-1918
Michal Hertz1844-1890
Kazimierz Julian Kratzer1844-1932
Algernon Drummond1844-1908
Paul Taffanel1844-1909
Stefan Fajnor1844-1917
Léon Vasseur1844-1931
Clara Kathleen Rogers ♀1844-1926
Charles Léon Hess ♂1844-1937
Charles Marie Widor ♂1844-1883
François Marie Demol ♂1844-1906
Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker ♂1844-1908
Pablo Martin Melinton Sarasate de Navasquez ♂1844-1908
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov ♂