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cantata

vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment
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Summary

cantata is a type of musical work/composition[1]. cantata ranks in the top 6% of type of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,735 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: musical form[3], music genre[4]
  • Subclass of: composed musical work[5], classical music[6]
  • Commons category: Cantatas[7]
  • Language of work or name: Italian[8]
  • Inception: 1600[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cantatas[10]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11], Riemann's Music Dictionary[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1900[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16]
  • Different from: oratorio[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

Why It Matters

cantata has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] cantata is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Arthur Sullivan composed musical work Gaetano Donizetti Gioachino Rossini Heinrich Schütz Robert Burns

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003289-kantaty
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003289-kantaty, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → oratorio
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2042193
    Aliases → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|15 */ Yso id: 15029, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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