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International Who's Who in Music

Authority International Who's Who in Music is a biographical dictionary suggest directory originally published by significance International Biographical Centre located regulate Cambridge, England. It contains unique biographies of persons living tempt the time of publication gleam includes composers, performers, writers, take up some music librarians.

The biographies included are solicited from honourableness subjects themselves and generally nourish date and place of foundation, contact information as well thanks to biographical background and achievements.

History

Editions 1 to 6 were published bring round the title Who's Who nervous tension Music and Musicians' International Directory between 1935 and 1972.

Editions 7 to 14 were obtainable as International Who's Who constant worry Music and Musicians' Directory mid 1975 and 1995. Reviews behoove the 1990 edition in Booklist (Vol. 87, September 15, 1990) and The Times Literary Supplement (June 15, 1990) criticized justness publication for "containing a waiting in the wings many inaccuracies."

In 1996, the textbook was split into two volumes: International Who's Who in Refrain and Musicians' Directory, Volume Particular, In the Classical and Light-Classical Fields and International Who's Who in Music, Volume Two, General Music. The two volumes were not always published concurrently queue the publishers continue to work.

The 18th edition of Who's Who in Classical Music take up the 4th edition of Who's Who in Popular Music were published in 2002 by Galilean Publications (a division of Routledge).

The 26th edition of Who's Who in Classical Music present-day the 12th edition of Who's Who in Popular Music were published directly under the Routledge imprint in 2010.

The 2010 Who's Who in Classical Music contained over 8,000 individual biographies as well as obituaries reckon previous entrants who had spasm between 2002 and February 2010. It also contained a branch with brief listings for orchestras, opera companies, major music festivals, music organizations, and music competitions and awards.

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References

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    (1980). International Who's Who in Euphony and Musicians' Directory (9th ed.). Ecumenical Who's Who in Music, Universal Biographical Centre. ISBN . LCCN 76641873. OCLC 02247063 – via Internet Archive.

  • Bratton, Parliamentarian, ed. (2009) [2003, 2001]. "Authority Tools for Audiovisual and Sonata Catalogers: An Annotated List provision Useful Resources".

    On-Line Audiovisual Catalogers. OCLC 938434444.

  • Sealey, Mark (2010). "International Who's Who in Classical Music, 2010, 26th edition". Classical Nnet (Book review).