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My Favorite Things

original song written and composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q546331
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Summary

My Favorite Things is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,038 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: Richard Rodgers[3]
  • Performer: Mary Martin[4], Julie Andrews[5]
  • Part of: The Sound of Music[6]
  • Language of work or name: English[7]
  • Publication date: 1959[8]
  • Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II[9]
  • Has edition or translation: Mikä voi olla sen mukavampaa[10]
  • Tonality: D minor[11], E minor[12]
  • Title: My Favorite Things[13]
  • Derivative work: 7 Rings[14]
  • Form of creative work: song[15]

Product Details

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  • Release type: Song[16]

  • Genre(s): christmas music, pop[17]

  • Community tags: christmas music, covered by glee, holiday, jazz classic, list song, pop, vocal[18]

  • MusicBrainz ID: edf0bfbc-c9e4-3b7d-9765-e8b86d9febbc[19]

Why It Matters

My Favorite Things has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Julie Andrews Mary Martin Oscar Hammerstein II Richard Rodgers The Sound of Music

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → Mary Martin, Julie Andrews
    Part of → The Sound of Music, The Sound of Music
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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