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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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age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
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age: 88Aribert Reimann
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age: 88James Whitbourn
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Percy Godfrey1859-1927
Wilhelm Harteveld1859-1935
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Théophile Sourilas1859-1918
Richard Mandl1859-1922
Nicolaï Alexandrovitch Sokolov1859-1938
Anna Severine Lindeman1859-1921
Richard Gompertz1859-1911
Carlo Munier1859-1924
Joseph Bernard Vidal1859-1939
August Enna1859-1886
Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski1859-1937
Algernon Ashton1859-1924
Rudolph Bergh1859-1927
Charles Marshall1859-1935
Albert Houfflack1859-1923
Sophus Andersen1859-1918
Eugène d' Harcourt1859-1923
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Arthur Friedheim1859-1925
Roman Statkowski1859-1931
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Per Lasson1859-1941
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Walter Battiston Haynes1859-1907
William Davies1859-1942
Karl Eduard Goepfart1859-1935
Josef Cyril Sychra1859-1924
Cecil Sharp1859-1932
Clovis Lecail1859-1916
Graham Ponsonby Moore1859-1940
Henri de Saussine1859-1918
Antonio Pini-Corsi1859-1918
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