Great Musician (Civ6)

Great Musician
Introduced in Civilization VI
Stats
Movement	4
Movement	4
Charges	2
Charges	2
Activation effect
Creates a Great Work of Music
Notes
Activate on an appropriate tile to create Great Work.

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The Great Musician is a type of Great Person Great Person in Civilization VI dedicated to the creation of Great Works of Music. Each Great Musician may be activated up to two times on a tile containing an empty slot which accepts Great Works of Music (such as a Theater Square district with a Broadcast Center, a Palace, or suitable wonder), creating up to two Great Works of Music.

Earning Great Musicians

Great Musicians may be claimed by any player who has earned enough Great Musician points. Theater Squares generate +1 Great Musician point per turn, and Broadcast Centers generate an additional +2 Great Musician points per turn. Further points may also be earned by completing the Theater Square Performances project in a city with a Theater Square. Players who do not have enough points may patronize a Musician by paying the difference using Faith or Gold.

Several wonders also provide Great Musician points. The Bolshoi Theatre provides +2 Great Musician points, the Broadway wonder provides +3 Great Musician points, and the Sydney Opera House provides +5 Great Musician points each turn.

Players can also increase their Great Musician point yields by using the Symphonies policy card, which generates +4 Great Musician points per turn.

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The Stockholm Suzerain bonus increases the number of Great Musician points generated from each Theater Square district by +1. (Note that in Rise and Fall, this bonus is only active if the Theater Square has a completed Amphitheater building.)

Great Musicians

Name	Era	Great Works of Music
Ludwig van Beethoven	Industrial	Ode to Joy (Symphony #9), Symphony #3 (Eroica Symphony) Mvt. 1
Johann Sebastian Bach	Industrial	"Little" Fugue in G minor, Cello Suite No. 1
Yatsuhashi Kengyo	Industrial	Rokudan no Shirabe, Hachidan no Shirabe
Antonio Vivaldi	Industrial	Four Seasons: Winter, La Notte Concerto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Industrial	Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony 40 Mvt. 1
Franz Liszt	Modern	Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1, The Dance in the Village Inn
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Modern	"1812 Overture" (Music), "Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture" (Music)
Antônio Carlos Gomes	Modern	Fosca - Mvt. 1 (Abertura), Antônio Carlos Gome
Liu Tianhua	Modern	Liang Xiao (Chinese Wikipedia), Kong Shan Niao Yu (Chinese Wikipedia)
Frédéric Chopin	Modern	Nocturne in E Flat Major, Grande Valse Brillante, Op. 18
Juventino Rosas	Atomic	Sobre las Olas, Vals Carmen
Antonín Dvořák	Atomic	New World Symphony, Serenade No. 22
Lili'uokalani	Atomic	Lili'uokalani's Prayer, Sanoe
Clara Schumann	Atomic	Prelude and Fugue Op 16 No. 3, Toccatina in A minor
Mykola Leontovych	Information	Carol of the Bells, Prelude for Choir
Gauhar Jaan	Information	Raga Kharnaj Jogiya, Raga Bhairavi

Strategy

Great Musicians are very valuable to players pursuing a Cultural Victory, though this value becomes apparent later than the other Culture-oriented Great People. Wonders with slots for Great Works of Music do not become available until the Industrial Era (with the exceptions of the Palace and the Apadana, which can hold Great Works of any kind), and there are only three of them: the Bolshoi Theatre, Broadway, and the Sydney Opera House. Apart from these, the Broadcast Center is the only regular building that can hold Great Works of Music. However, if you can attract enough Great Musicians to fill these three wonders and all of your Broadcast Centers with Great Works of Music, the Satellite Broadcasts Policy Card will reward you with a huge output of Tourism.

Civilopedia entry

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 beat, whatever the instruments, no other art speaks to our emotions like music. Since it does, it is also the most subjective of the arts; what is heavenly harmony to one is just a cacophony of noise to another. That rather broadens the definition of what is “great” music; perhaps the best way to judge this “greatness” is how long a piece has continued to be played and appreciated by others. But 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.