Civilization 5 Specialists and Great People
Great Musician - Abilities & GPP Guide for Brave New World
Great Musician Info
Great Musicians are primarily generated through the Musician's Guild National Wonder which gives +3 GPP toward a Great Musician. With its two slots filled, this comes to +9 before any percentage bonuses. Great Musicians can be purchased for a base cost of 1000 faith if you have finished the Aesthetics Social Policies.
Aside from the Musician's Guild and those listed below, only Social Policies and Wonders such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa that let you pick a Great Person can allow you to get a Great Musician. With Max Patronage, City-States may gift you with a Great Musician, but the chance is low given the number of possibilities.
The Great Musician's first ability is to Create Great Work of Music which will automatically place the Work in one of your available slots, such as the Opera House. This is the best option early in the game, so that your Tourism has plenty of time to pass the one-shot ability explained below.
Concert Tours are the Great Musician's second ability. This is useful only when you're going for a Cultural Win with Tourism a necessity. Take the Great Musician to the Civ your Culture is having the hardest time overcoming and use this option - they need only be inside the borders of the other Civ. When you use the ability, your Tourism bar will leap with that Civ while a secondary effect passes a little less to all other Civs in the game. Use this late-game to help your Tourism pass Civs with a high Culture. It's a wonderful ability, and if you're gunning for a late-game cultural win, mass-producing Great Musicians should be on your list of priorities.
| GPP | Building | Building Bonus | Tech to Unlock |
| +3 | Musician's Guild | National Wonder. +2 Musician Slots | Acoustics |
Other Wonders Related to Great Musicians
- Broadway Wonder
Requires Radio
1 Great Musician Appears in the City. Contains 3 Slots for Great Works of Music, while providing +2 base Culture per turn.
Social Policies and Ideologies Related to Great Musicians
- Aesthetics
Requires Classical Era
Great Writers, Artists, and Musicians born 25% faster. - Futurism
Requires Autocracy Level I
+100 Tourism to All Civilizations when a Great Writer, Artist, or Musician is Born
If you'd like to learn more about creating Great People, don't miss the first page of this guide dedicated to Listing Great People and Maximizing GPP through Buildings and Wonders. Share your tips about using and generating this Great Person through the comments form at the bottom of the page where your strategies can help players new to Civilization 5 and the Gods & Kings and Brave New World DLCs.
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