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Classical music composers archive
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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Péter Eötvös
Sunday, March 24, 2024
age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
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age: 88Aribert Reimann
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age: 88Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
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age: 82Georg Riedel
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age: 90Albert Mayr
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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
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age: 96Peter Schickele
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age: 88Bruno Ducol
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age: 74
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Jeanne Colin-De Clerck ♀1924-2007
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Angela Morley ♀1924-2014
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