The 100 most influential musicians of all time
By: edited by Gini Gorlinski
Series: The Britannica guide to the world's most influential people; Britannica guide to the world's most influential people
Publisher: Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781615300563
Subjects: Musicians; MUSIC; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Composers & Musicians; Individual Composer & Musician; Biography
Other titles: One Hundred most influential musicians of all time
Description: It has been said that when it comes to success, it isn't what you know, but who you know. The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time is one title in this 8 book series, in which readers get the best of both worlds. Concise but information-packed biographies detail the lives and life's work of hundreds of leading individuals from an assortment of disciplines. Readers will get to know the foremost minds within science, art, writing, music, invention, politics and philosophy. Each valuable compendium offers a comprehensive index, complementary visuals, and behind-the-scenes details that revea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-350) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Guido d'Arezzo; title: Josquin des Prez; title: Antonio Vivaldi; title: George Frideric Handel; title: Johann Sebastian Bach; title: Joseph Haydn; title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; title: Ludwig van Beethoven; title: Franz Schubert; title: Felix Mendelssohn; title: Frédéric Chopin; title: Franz Liszt; title: Richard Wagner; title: Giuseppe Verdi; title: Johannes Brahms; title: Sir W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan; title: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; title: Giacomo Puccini; title: Gustav Mahler; title: Claude Debussy; title: Sergey Rachmaninoff; title: W.C. Handy; title: Arnold Schoenberg; title: Charles Ives; title: Béla Bartók; title: Igor Stravinsky; title: Leadbelly; title: Carter Family; title: Sergey Prokofiev; title: Cole Porter; title: Jimmie Rogers; title: Fletcher Henderson; title: Bessie Smith; title: George Gershwin; title: Duke Ellington; title: Kurt Weill; title: Aaron Copland; title: Louis Armstrong; title: Umm Kulthūm; title: Count Basie; title: Dmitry Shostakovich; title: Bill Monroe; title: Mahalia Jackson; title: Robert Johnson; title: Woody Guthrie; title: John Cage; title: Muddy Waters; title: Billie Holiday; title: Frank Sinatra; title: Edith Piaf; title: Nat King Cole; title: Ella Fitzgerald; title: Leonard Bernstein; title: Pete Seeger; title: Ravi Shankar; title: Charlie Parker; title: Tito Puente; title: Hank Williams; title: Maria Callas; title: Clifton Chenier; title: B.B. King; title: Miles Davis; title: Chuck Berry; title: Antonio Carlos Jobim; title: Ray Charles; title: Patsy Cline; title: James Brown; title: Elvis Presley; title: Luciano Pavarotti; title: Buddy Holly; title: The Rolling Stones; title: Philip Glass; title: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles; title: Parliament-Funkadelic; title: The Beatles; title: Joan Baez; title: Plácido Domingo; title: The Beach Boys; title: Bob Dylan; title: Aretha Franklin; title: Jimi Hendrix; title: Joni Mitchell; title: Led Zeppelin; title: The Who; title: Bob Marley; title: Eric Clapton; title: King Sunny Ade; title: David Bowie; title: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; title: Bruce Springsteen; title: Stevie Wonder; title: The Sex Pistols; title: Prince; title: Madonna; title: Michael Jackson; title: Public Enemy; title: U2; title: Nirvana; title: Radiohead; title: Jay-Z.