Great Musician

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The **Great Musician** is a Great Person acquired through Specialists or Wonders.

## Overview

It has been said that "music is the soul of a people." If that is indeed the case, then "Great Musicians" are the guardians of that soul. Whatever the form, whatever the instruments, no other art speaks to our emotions like music. From the time that men first beat out a rhythm on logs, to the modern electronic orchestra, great composers and performers have expressed the collective sorrows and joys of each civilization.

## Strategy

The Great Musician is one of the new types of Artists in the *Brave New World* expansion. The main method of producing him is building a Musicians' Guild and assigning Specialists to work there.

As with other Great Artists, Musicians can produce a Great Work, which may then be placed within your buildings for a permanent bonus to  Tourism and Culture. Their other ability, "Concert Tour," may be used in another civilization's lands for a one-time boost to your cultural influence with them (a part of which is also shared between all other civilizations). Use this to take over your pesky cultural rivals who withstand the power of your culture!

Note that a Great Musician, unlike a Great Prophet, can only enter the territory of civilizations with which you have an open borders agreement. This presents a problem, because many of your direct rivals in the endgame won't agree to open their borders to you, and your Great Musicians will never be able to set foot in their territory. You will either have to negotiate tough agreements where you trade off a lot more than you get, or declare war on them and share your music by force.

## Unique Unit Replacements

* Ignores enemy zones of control
* May be expended to spawn a source of Deer on a tile
* Cannot create Great Works of Music

## List of Names

1. John Adams
2. Al-Kindi
3. Alla Rakha
4. Johann Sebastian Bach
5. Louis Ballard
6. Ludwig van Beethoven
7. Prince Benbadhanabongse
8. Alban Berg
9. David Blanasi
10. Johannes Brahms
11. Benjamin Britten
12. Prince Buster
13. William Byrd
14. John Cage
15. Carlos Chávez
16. Frédéric Chopin
17. Sayed Darwish
18. Claude Debussy
19. Guillaume Dufay
20. Antonín Dvořák
21. Duke Ellington
22. Enheduanna
23. Ulvi Cemal Erkin
24. Gaspar Fernandes
25. Giovanni Gabrieli
26. George Gershwin
27. Carlo Gesualdo
28. Guido d'Arezzo
29. George Handel
30. Franz Josef Haydn
31. Gustav Holst
32. Charles Ives
33. Ji Kang
34. Orlande de Lassus
35. Solomon Linda
36. Ferenc Liszt
37. Emerico Lobo de Mesquita
38. Gustav Mahler
39. Guillaume de Machaut
40. Meerabai
41. Mesomedes
42. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
43. Modest Mussorgsky
44. R. Carlos Nakai
45. Jacob Obrecht
46. Johannes Ockeghem
47. Niccolò Paganini
48. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
49. Hanna Petros
50. Josquin des Prez
51. Maurice Ravel
52. Steve Reich
53. Silvestre Revueltas
54. Camille Saint Saëns
55. Esteban Salas y Castro
56. Erik Satie
57. Manuel Saumell
58. Francisco Manuel da Silva
59. Johann Strauss II
60. Richard Strauss
61. Thomas Tallis
62. Taizan Higuchi
63. Pyotr Tchaikovsky
64. Giuseppe Verdi
65. Richard Wagner
66. Wasitodiningrat
67. Hugo Wolf
68. Yamada Kengyo
69. Yatsuhashi Kengyo
70. Ziryab