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Belshazzar's Feast

cantata by the English composer William Walton
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Belshazzar's Feast

Summary

Belshazzar's Feast is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Belshazzar's Feast's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's composer is recorded as William Walton[4].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's librettist is recorded as Osbert Sitwell[5].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • 1930 marks the founding of Belshazzar's Feast[7].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's lyricist is recorded as Osbert Sitwell[8].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's lyricist is recorded as DP[9].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's dedicated to is recorded as Lord Berners[10].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's date of first performance is recorded as October 8, 1931[11].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "Belshazzar's Feast"}[12].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's location of first performance is recorded as Leeds Festival[13].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's has lyrics is recorded as Book of Daniel[14].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's has lyrics is recorded as Psalm 137[15].
  • Belshazzar's Feast's form of creative work is recorded as cantata[16].

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

  • Release type: Cantata[17]

  • Genre(s): classical[18]

  • Community tags: choral, classical[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 3e196f7e-a370-4228-a193-60e343da2d5c[20]

Body

Publication

Belshazzar's Feast's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].

Why It Matters

Belshazzar's Feast ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

Related Entities

William Walton

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Language of work or name → English
    Form of creative work → cantata
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