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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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Aribert Reimann
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
age: 88Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
Monday, March 4, 2024
age: 82Georg Riedel
Sunday, February 25, 2024
age: 90Albert Mayr
Sunday, January 28, 2024
age: 80Manuel Carra
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age: 92Merton T. Shatzkin
Monday, January 22, 2024
age: 94Ivan Moody
Thursday, January 18, 2024
age: 59Laurie Johnson
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
age: 96Peter Schickele
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
age: 88Bruno Ducol
Saturday, January 13, 2024
age: 74Romuald Twardowski
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age: 93Scott Roller
Saturday, January 13, 2024
age: 65
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Random composer timeline fragment
1640-1712
Martin Hotteterre ♂1640-1701
Carel Hacquart ♂1640-1720
Antonia Bembo ♀1640-1685
Esther Elizabeth Velkiers ♀1640-1711
Christian Geist1640-1706
Sebastiano Moratelli1640-1700
Andreas Christophorus Clamer1640-1693
Jacques-Denis Thomelin1640-1705
Leopold I1640-1705
Giovanni Sebenico1640-1708
Giovanni Battista Draghi1640-1712
Moustafa Bouhourdjou Oglou Itri1640-1687
Bartolomeo Albrici1640-1691
Diego de Torrijos1640-1709
Cristoforo Caresana1640-1688
Franz Rost1640-1697
Carlo Mannelli1640-1716
Gallot le Jeune1640-1672
Giovanni Antonio Boretti1640-1707
Jean Mignon1640-1690
Bonaventura Aliotti1640-1713
Paolo Lorenzani ♂1640-1710
Gaspar Sanz ♂1640-1697
Catharina Amalia ♀1640-1700
Nicolaus Adam Strungk ♂1640-1725
Carl [Carolus, Charles] (de) Rosier ♂1641-1717
Wolfgang Caspar Printz1641-1673
Philippe Van Wichel1641-1727
Dirk Scholl1641-1683
Alessandro Poglietti1642-1707
Philipp Jakob Böddecker ♂1642-1696
Pierre Gautier ♂1642-1710
Johann Friedrich Alberti ♂1642-1704
Sebastiano Cherici ♂1642-1697
Georg Schmezer ♂1642-1699
Friedrich Funcke ♂1642-1686
Johann Quirsfeld ♂1642-1719
Johann Friedrich Treiber ♂1642-1697
Georg Christoph Bach ♂1642-1678
Giovanni Maria Bononcini ♂1642-1703
Johann Christoph Bach ♂1642-1697
Michelangelo Falvetti ♂1643-1685
Marx Augustin ♂1643-1721
Johann Kortkamp ♂1643-1690
Bartolomeo Baldrati ♂1643-1717
Melchior d' Ardespin1643-1711
Christian Demelius1643-1676
Georg Ludwig Agricola