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symphony

extended musical composition
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Summary

symphony is a type of musical work/composition[1]. symphony ranks in the top 3% of type of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,737 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Influenced by: sinfonia[3]
  • Instance of: musical form[4], music genre[5]
  • Subclass of: composed musical work[6]
  • Commons category: Symphonies[7]
  • Inception: 1600[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Symphonies[9]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[14]
  • Different from: Q20978328[15], concordance[16], sinfonia concertante[17], symphonic poem[18]
  • Has list: list of symphonies by number[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[20], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Classical music[22]

Why It Matters

symphony has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] symphony is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Aaron Copland Albert Roussel Aleksandra Pakhmutova Alexander Borodin Alexander Glazounov Alexander Scriabin Alexander von Zemlinsky Alfredo Casella Alfred Schnittke Anton Bruckner Anton Reicha Anton Rubinstein Aram Khachaturian Arnold Bax Arthur Honegger Arthur Sullivan Arvo Pärt Benjamin Britten Bohuslav Martinů Bruno Walter Camille Saint-Saëns Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Carl Nielsen Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Reinecke César Franck Charles Gounod Charles Ives Charles-Marie Widor Charles Villiers Stanford

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 23VylR
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007979-symfonie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007979-symfonie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259499|batch #259499]]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Symphonies
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Classical music
    Instance of → type of musical work/composition, musical form, music genre
    Local thumb → —
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 10247, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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