The Most Productive People in History: 18 Extraordinarily Prolific Inventors, Artists, and Entrepreneurs, From Archimedes to Elon Musk

by Michael Rank

Book Overview

They never knew how he did it. Few composers write more than one or two symphonies in their lifetimes. Beethoven spent a year on his shorter symphonies but more than six years on his 9th Symphony. The prodigy Mozart finished his last three symphonies (39, 40, and 41) in the span of a few weeks. His 25th Symphony took only two days.None of these speed records match those of baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann. Friends with both Johann Sebastian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511671343
• ISBN13: 9781511671347
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"