The Rite of Spring

ballet music by Igor Stravinsky, composed for the ballet of the same title by Vaslav Nijinsky
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q206015
The Rite of Spring
Nicholas Roerich · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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The Rite of Spring

Summary

The Rite of Spring is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.6% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,459 views/month, #116 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Rite of Spring is the creator of Sidney Nolan[3].
  • The Rite of Spring's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[4].
  • The Rite of Spring's composer is recorded as Igor Stravinsky[5].
  • The Rite of Spring's librettist is recorded as Igor Stravinsky[6].
  • The Rite of Spring's librettist is recorded as Nicholas Roerich[7].
  • The Rite of Spring's commissioned by is recorded as Sergei Diaghilev[8].
  • The Rite of Spring's Commons category is recorded as Le Sacre du printemps[9].
  • The Rite of Spring's instrumentation is recorded as Lihua[10].
  • The Rite of Spring's date of first performance is recorded as May 29, 1913[11].
  • The Rite of Spring's title is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Le Sacre du printemps'}[12].
  • The Rite of Spring's choreographer is recorded as Vaslav Nijinsky[13].
  • The Rite of Spring's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+35'}[14].
  • The Rite of Spring's location of first performance is recorded as Théâtre des Champs-Élysées[15].
  • The Rite of Spring's derivative work is recorded as Le Sacre du Printemps[16].
  • The Rite of Spring's derivative work is recorded as The Rite of Spring[17].
  • The Rite of Spring's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Q136402326[18].
  • The Rite of Spring's form of creative work is recorded as ballet[19].
  • The Rite of Spring's music created for is recorded as The Rite of Spring[20].

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: Ballet[21]

  • Genre(s): ballet, classical, orchestral[22]

  • Community tags: ballet, classical, orchestral[23]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 54dacada-b00c-34b6-bbbb-e89855c7219f[24]

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Authorship and Creation

The Rite of Spring is the creator of Sidney Nolan[3].

Why It Matters

The Rite of Spring ranks in the top 0.6% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,459 views/month, #116 of 19,375).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] . Museum of Modern Art online collection. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . books.google.com. books.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [21] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [22] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [23] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [24] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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