International Who's Who in Classical Music 2009 (25th edition)

The International Who's Who of Classical Music now in its 25th edition was first published in 1935. This latest edition contains over 8,000 detailed biographical entries of up and coming musicians as well as well established names of the classical and light classical genre. It is broken down into two parts; the Biographies and the Directory.

Preceding the biographies there is a useful section entitled Alphabetization and the Transcription of Names. This explains that entrants are listed alphabetically under their family name. Names are cross‐referenced if an entrants name is spelt in a variety of ways. This worked well when...