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Songs and Dances of Death

song cycle composed by Modest Mussorgsky
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Songs and Dances of Death

Summary

Songs and Dances of Death is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (83 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Songs and Dances of Death's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Songs and Dances of Death's composer is recorded as Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky[4].
  • Songs and Dances of Death's genre is classical music[5].
  • 1875 marks the founding of Songs and Dances of Death[6].
  • Songs and Dances of Death's lyricist is recorded as Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov[7].
  • Songs and Dances of Death's form of creative work is recorded as song cycle[8].

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: Song-cycle[9]

  • Genre(s): classical[10]

  • Community tags: classical, vocal music[11]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 48be23ed-44f7-46fb-b703-e0e78447f460[12]

Body

Publication

Songs and Dances of Death's genre is classical music[5].

Why It Matters

Songs and Dances of Death ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (83 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13]

Related Entities

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

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.

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

  1. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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