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Boléro

orchestral composition by Maurice Ravel
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Boléro
Maurice Ravel · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

Boléro is a ballet[1]. Boléro ranks in the top 0.41% of ballet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,394 views/month, #1 of 243).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: musical work/composition[3]
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel[4]
  • Commissioned by: Ida Rubinstein[5]
  • Genre: bolero[6]
  • Commons category: Boléro[7]
  • Inception: January 1, 1928[8]
  • Publication date: January 1, 1929[9]
  • Tonality: C major[10]
  • Instrumentation: symphony orchestra[11]
  • Title: Boléro[12], Bolero[13]
  • Choreographer: Bronislava Nijinska[14]
  • Name in kana: ボレロ[15]
  • Derivative work: Lonlon[16]
  • Opus number: 81[17]

Product Details

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  • Release type: Ballet[18]

  • Genre(s): ballet, orchestral, western classical[19]

  • Community tags: awesome, ballet, orchestral, western classical[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 487527b9-a525-33f4-b948-ea41b9a2672f[21]

Why It Matters

Boléro has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Boléro is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Maurice Ravel

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'e
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → topic/Bolero-by-Ravel
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopædia britannica online id: topic/Bolero-by-Ravel"
  2. 5w ago · VGMaintenanceBot bot · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["MusicWork", "Bolero::563sw"], Entity["MusicWork", "Bolero::p9586"], Entity["MusicWork", "Boleroop81::nfn32"]
    Native label → —
    Title → {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Boléro'}, {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'Bolero'}
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Mediawiki page id: 1406921, Add qualifier to IMSLP ID `Boléro_(Ravel,_Maurice)`"
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