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The Gadfly Suite

Suite by Dmitri Shostakovich.
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The Gadfly Suite

Summary

The Gadfly Suite 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

  • The Gadfly Suite's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • The Gadfly Suite's composer is recorded as Dmitri Shostakovich[4].
  • The Gadfly Suite's date of first performance is recorded as December 1955[5].
  • The Gadfly Suite's form of creative work is recorded as suite[6].
  • The Gadfly Suite's opus number is recorded as 97a[7].

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: Suite[8]

  • Genre(s): classical, orchestral[9]

  • Community tags: classical, orchestral[10]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 1c928b9f-80ff-4bbd-a741-98f883fc0fc2[11]

Why It Matters

The Gadfly Suite ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

Dmitri Shostakovich

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.

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

  1. [8] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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