Musica International : End of a Huge Work on the Composers Table

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Published: Oct 31,2025

The May 2025 IFCMeNEWS included a description of the benefits of using the database of 33,000 biographies of choral music composers. This resource has been developed by Musica International and is available at www.musicanet.org, or, with full privileged access, through the “SERVICE” section of www.ifcm.net if you are a member of IFCM (See here). The database is, in fact, a table of composers connected to the more than 200,000 descriptions of choral scores of Musica International database.

An important milestone occurred in October 2025 - the re-examination and upgrading of this table was completed after a careful, one-by-one analysis of 33,000 records (several years of work)! This type of upgrading will continue and is never-ending. In the future, updates will occur through tracking news concerning the composers, e.g., every month, composers are passing away, and their record needs to be updated. As well, the database of scores is enriched almost daily as new records are added for composers not yet cited. While 25,000 records now have at least one external link to detailed biographies, links to new biographies need to be added and dead links need constantly to be removed and, if possible, replaced by others.

This is an appeal to every choral music lover to help us perpetuate and refine this work. Do not hesitate to use this database, to check the presence and correctness of the information about yourself (if you are a composer), to send us comments, and to give us information that is still not present in Musica. Contact us at librarian@musicanet.org. Musica is a collaborative project needing the participation of everybody.

Examples of recent updated records: