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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Summary

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (469 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra's composer is recorded as Benjamin Britten[4].
  • 1945 marks the founding of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra[5].
  • The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra was published on 1947[6].
  • The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra's instrumentation is recorded as symphony orchestra[7].
  • The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra's date of first performance is recorded as October 15, 1946[8].
  • The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell'}[9].
  • The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra's form of creative work is recorded as theme and variation[10].
  • The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra's opus number is recorded as 34[11].

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

  • Genre(s): classical, orchestral, theme and variations[12]

  • Community tags: classical, orchestral, theme and variations[13]

  • MusicBrainz ID: ace72a0f-a21f-4ebd-a994-3957aaf14d9f[14]

Body

Publication

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra was published on 1947[6].

Why It Matters

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (469 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Benjamin Britten

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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