A Hero's Life

symphonic poem by Richard Strauss
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q1304650
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A Hero's Life

Summary

A Hero's Life is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (329 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • A Hero's Life's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • A Hero's Life's composer is recorded as Richard Strauss[4].
  • 1897 marks the founding of A Hero's Life[5].
  • A Hero's Life was published on 1899[6].
  • A Hero's Life's title is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Ein Heldenleben'}[7].
  • A Hero's Life's copyright status is recorded as public domain[8].
  • A Hero's Life's form of creative work is recorded as symphonic poem[9].
  • A Hero's Life's opus number is recorded as 40[10].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Genre(s): classical, orchestral[11]

  • Community tags: classical, orchestral[12]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e0ee1792-12e0-33de-9c44-7b31eacfa867[13]

Body

Publication

A Hero's Life was published on 1899[6].

Why It Matters

A Hero's Life ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (329 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . International Music Score Library Project. Retrieved . imslp.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [11] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [13] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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