He's a culturally significant musician who has released numerous albums and worked with a wide variety of artists, probably most notably David Byrne of Talking Heads.

For example David Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans" that he worked on with Trent Reznor originally started as a collaboration between Bowie and Eno. Reznor cleaned it up and made it radio friendly whereas Eno's cut was highly experimental as he is wont to do.

Brian Eno on "scenius":

https://youtu.be/77mbz2HbY5Y

Music for Airports

“Ambient 1: Music for Airports” basically invented the genre of specifically-designed ambient music. Before that, it was all background noise and Muzak.

Denouncing Microsoft.

Oh, and coining the term Ambient Music, and being an electronic music pioneer. ...Nothing as historic as composing a chime sound for windows, once, however.

Some of the best ambient music of our time.