International Who’s Who in Music and Musicians’ Directory (in the Classical and Light Classical Fields) (17th edition, 2000/2001)

The International Biographical Centre (IBC) compilations published by Melrose Press will be familiar to the staff of larger libraries, ranging, as they do from the Dictionary of International Biography and Men of Achievement to the International Who’s Who in Medicine, and 2000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century. The publisher’s questionnaires seeking names to fill these directories may also be familiar. The form this volume follows is that of its stablemates: an alphabetical listing of personal names heading entries which give brief biographical information of birth dates, nationality and, in this case, musical achievements such as...