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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
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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
Latest news
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Random composer timeline fragment
1886-1931
Celestino Piaggio ♂1886-1973
Ellen Coleman ♀1886-1962
Natalie Hannau Townsend ♀1886-1970
Jean de Valois ♂1886-1949
Gustaf Nordqvist1886-1975
Christian Lahusen1886-1956
George Luther Foote1886-1910
Giovanna Bruna Baldacci1886-1970
Elizabeth Gyring1886-1973
Alberto Curci1886-1961
Geni Sadero1886-1918
Sandor Kovacs1886-1958
Kurt Striegler1886-1918
Jaroslav Novotny1886-1958
Hans May1886-1945
Walter John Alexander Freymann1886-1973
Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia1886-1954
Joel Ejnar Eklof1886-1980
Emilio Pujol Vilarrubi1886-1970
Jeanne Lefevre1886-1926
Arthur Van Dooren1886-1954
Konstantin Nikolaïevitch Chvedov1886-1958
Alexeï Evlampyevitch Turenkov1886-1969
Hermann Grabner1886-1953
Jack Glogau1886-1971
Edward Ballantine1886-1960
Jean Duperier1886-1947
Cesare Sodero1886-1973
Eduardo Rodriguez-Losada Rebellon1886-1951
Edward J. Collins1886-1974
Robert Herberigs1886-1978
Robert Heger1886-1962
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo1886-1965
Gustaf Bengtsson1886-1970
Jean Dere1886-1958
Paul Bazelaire1886-1946
Gottfried Rudinger1886-1935
Hans Grimm1886-1943
Guy Ammandt1886-1948
Reginald Owen Morris1886-1942
Albert Febvre-Longeray1886-1948
George Frederick Boyle1886-1967
James Friskin1886-1965
Kosaku Yamada1886-1961
John Joseph Becker1886-1938
Ladislas de Rohozinski1886-1927
Helmer Alexandersson1886-1956
José Antonio de Donostia ♂1886-1968
Émilienne Machabey-Ganeval ♀1886-1954
Wilhelm Furtwängler ♂