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The Five

circle of five prominent 19th-century Russian composers
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The Five

Summary

The Five is a composition school[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of composition_school entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,598 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Five's instance of is recorded as composition school[3].
  • The Five's instance of is recorded as pentad[4].
  • The Five's Commons category is recorded as The Mighty Handful[5].
  • The Five comprises Mily Balakirev[6].
  • The Five comprises Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky[7].
  • The Five comprises Alexander Borodin[8].
  • The Five comprises Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov[9].
  • The Five comprises César Cui[10].
  • The Five's topic's main category is recorded as Category:The Five (composers)[11].
  • The Five's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[12].
  • The Five's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • The Five's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[14].
  • The Five's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Могучая кучка'}[15].

Why It Matters

The Five ranks in the top 8% of composition_school entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,598 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Alexander Borodin César Cui Mily Balakirev Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts → —
    Has part(s) → Mily Balakirev, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin +2
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → composition school, pentad
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|17 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 39403, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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