Most influential musician in history

[Joshua Yu]

Johann Sebastian Bach
He invented the stuff and standardized the notation of music notes.

Antonio Salieri
He played an important role of being a great teacher. His students included Beethoven, Czerny, Hummel, Liszt, Meyerbeer, Moscheles, Schubert, Süssmayr, etc.

Ludwig van Beethoven
He was the founder of Romanticism in music. He was also the first one to write a linked symphony, a scherzo as the third movement of a symphony and a vocalized symphony.

Niccolo Paganini
Greatest violinist ever. Brought up the popularity of composing violin concertos, sonatas.

Gioachino Rossini
He brought up the popularity of opera.

Pyotr Llyich Tchaikovsky
The first one to wrote concertos, dances optimized for orchestra instead of the soloist or dance. His music was adopted for movies and commercials the most.

Gustav Mahler
Greatest symphony writer ever. He is responsible for the popularity of symphonies in post romantic period. He also wrote a symphony of the greatest arrangement in history. (Symphony of a Thousand)

George Gershwin
He successfully brought jazz music from street bars into musical hall. He was the first composer to write grand classic-jazz.

Wilhelm Furtwängler
He was a great conductor. The standard size of the digital compact disc was designed to be the same length to his performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (74mins).

[some guy]

Two people who fundamentally altered the course of music, and a few others who were enormously influencial, aren't even on your list, though:

Claudio Monteverdi, Hector Berlioz, Arnold Schoenberg, John Cage, and LaMonte Young.

A list of influencial musicians should really have those five on it.

[Thorolf]

For influence I’d like to add Olivier Messiaen and Igor Stravinsky, Lennon/McCartney, Miles Davis, Kraftwerk and Public Enemy.

Regards

[jvalentino]

For me personally Olivier Messiaen has had the biggest influence on me as a composer. Le Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps is one of my all time favorite works.

As for the most influential musician of all time, that is quite a hard decision to make.

Jazz wouldn't exist as we know it (if at all) without Louis Armstrong, Bach's contribution is obvious in everything, and Beethoven's structure and style set the bar for everyone thereafter.

[animefreek9]

out of that, beathoven, but it would probably be ozzy or metallica for recent music, all that emo crap sucks and isnt gonna influence anything in the future, so thats out, its gotta be an early metal artist, but if its not, it might be the beatles or the rolling stones

[Lunatique]

There are two ways to look at this. One is who's most influential in the HISTORICAL development of music, and the other is who's the most influential to TODAY's music.

Historically, I'd probably say Beethoven. He even appeared twice on the list of candidates (Furtwängler's performance of his 9th).

Currently, I'd say the Beatles probably inspired more of today's musicians than anyone else.

[ttw]

Guido
Joseph Haydn
Robert Schumann

[Thorolf]

I’m locking this thread in favour of the new one here.

.:LOKCED:.

Regards