User talk:Gerda Arendt/2022

Thank you, Victuallers, diligent work! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:30, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if I deserve a DYK credit for the article. I only cited the cast and what part they sing. SL93 (talk) 19:09, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You are modest, thank you ;) - You also gave a review, and I did nothing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 30 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elena Guseva, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Elena Guseva's training as a choral conductor helped her analyse the score when playing Polina in Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Vienna State Opera? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elena Guseva. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Elena Guseva), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I was impressed by her performance as Marietta in Die tote Stadt, alongside Klaus Florian Vogt and Christoph Pohl, - she entered on a bicycle. The review was out of proportion in length (thought I), but in the end arrived at mentioning "choral conductor" which please me greatly. Special thanks to GRuban for the image! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:51, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gerda, Just a few points I would like to make.

• Thank you very much for your answers in a discussion I started recently.
• The hint on closing "br" for new lines with a slash was helpful, thank you.
• Please don’t tell me what to strike in my comments, and I will extend you the same courtesy.
• I pasted your original comment in my answers to save people from continually having to look up the page for what you had originally said. Again, I would appreciate it if you don’t tell me how to format my comments. I did it that way for a reason.
• It was also a bit abrupt of you to say “I believe we are done” when I may have wanted to reply.

Hope this helps in some way, and there is no ill feeling on my part whatsoever. BrightOrion | talk 17:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for explaining. (For others: we come from the discussion on Classical music whether to say, beginning a symphony article, Symphony No. 4 or The Symphony No. 4, as the MoS says, and hundreds of articles have, + sonatas, motets, string quartets, - all these generic names.) No hard feelings, just that I have my internal rule of no more than two comments in a discussion, and I felt you didn't have the same ;) - If you want to reply, feel free, here or there, but I had the feeling some were tired already. I collided with the MoS in 2013 (

A Boy was Born), and still get furious thinking of it, licking wounds. Perhaps that helps? Adding "finally" to a remark about my comment ("Someone with a clear comment (finally).") felt like you were degrading all other previous comments, therefore I recommended to strike that word. It was a nice compliment without it, thank you for that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:21, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply

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Here’s the thing Gerda: Saying “hundreds of” articles etc. is using

weasel words without any evidence to back them up. And how many articles don’t use “the”? A million? Even if using “the” in the name is correct, without “the” is better. But don’t just take my word for it, listen to how, for example, British people speak. It sounds more natural. The thing is MoS don’t want to admit it because then they are admitting they made a mistake. And that is me done for this topic now. I have better things to do :) BrightOrion | talk 18:46, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply

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weasel words ;) - These hundreds of articles follow Wikipedia's manual of style, and if it sounds wrong to you try to change it. I won't, and I don't care about speculations about their motivations. Tim riley and Brianboulton are my models for British English. Today, I saw someone change thousand+ links to a dab page. If you up to such a thing, try the Composers's Symphony No. 4 thing, best first for less known people than Beethoven and Mahler. I, however, rather want to expand two articles of people who just died (such as Heinz Werner Zimmermann, begun by Jerome Kohl, missed much), expand Psalm 5, write about a mass, and most urgently: upload vacation images and show them to friends. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:23, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply

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Oh I see, so a lot of the editors in that discussion knew each other. Yes I like that system because it guarantees impartiality. BrightOrion | talk 20:49, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You are right that Classical music editors know each other, see below. Brian Boulton died in 2019, but is still a model for me. He was one an authors of the Symphony No. 8 by Sibelius article, so we could cite him as a model for the Composer's Symphony approach. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:53, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You mean Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 8? Oh yes, great. BrightOrion (talk) 22:41, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just my own opinion as a native speaker and writer of British English, for what it is worth: I would generally use "Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)" for the title, and spell the number out fully for the opening phrase of text, as "The Fifth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven....", etc.: in that context, the definite article is required. It's a matter of style: most people don't write numerals for numbers less than 10 when writing in formal text. Whether the number should have a capital letter or not is debatable, but one would need it for the Fifth or the Ninth and it would therefore be consistent to use it throughout. To use the lower case for the number would have a different connotation, such as "The first piano concerto of Frederic Chopin...", which (if I remember rightly) is the one we call "The Second Piano Concerto of Frederic Chopin...". Eebahgum (talk) 02:22, 1 February 2022 (UTC)ĘĘịị[reply]

Dear Gerda, Fabulous pictures! The living masses resolving into receding poems from the painter's palate, the volumes rolling away like a tide. Domini est terra, et plenitudo eius - Quam admirabile est Nomen Tuum! (that's two different places...). Levavi oculos meos in montes unde veniet auxilium mihi. The whole world causes one to raise up one's eyes into the infinite firmament. Thankyou, I wish I were there. I do hope you took your auloi with you. - Blessings, Eebahgum (talk) 21:09, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for coming over. I took no instrument, but sang in the open air ;) -

Hebe deine Augen auf (Levavi ...) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:55, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply

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"Hebe auf" - makes it sound such an effort! I, too, sing out loud in the open air, giving to all and sundry the appearance of my being a madman. I sang an entire Psalm (to my own music) when on my own halfway up a very high hill in Snowdonia, before realizing that the top of the hill was rather beyond my reach. And when I go into an empty parish church in the country I often sing one. I sang one to God alone in

Val di Chiana. Half-way around (coming back from the cells) I stopped, and, checking that I was quite alone, "This is surely better than La Scala" thought I, so I stood looking out over the descending hillside and let rip with a very full-throated rendering of "Dai campi, dai prati" (Boito, Mefistofele) in my best baritone declamation. Hoping I was not disturbing the monks in their celle, I enjoyed myself so much I sang "Giunto sul passo estremo" as well, possibly twice, into the deliciously cool but sunny air. It seemed to be going well... As I concluded, con gusto ("voglio che questo sogno sia la santa poesia: è l'ultimo bisogno dell'esistenza mia"), an Italian guide with a party of about 30 nice American ladies suddenly popped out from behind a nearby bush, and the guide remarked kindly, "You have found yourself an excellent theatre!" We all laughed, and everyone was very nice about it. I don't think I had quite ruined their morning, nor they mine, but I didn't reprise after that: the diffidence took over. It was the same week I did this sslightly peculiar sketch of the church a little lower down the same hillside. Younger days... Eebahgum (talk) 23:46, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply

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You opened my eyes and ears, lovely, thank you. Spectacular even, - I love the sketch, and wish I had been one of those ladies! Recommended reading for all who watch this page. Singing (up to quartet) at the Gnadenthal church on bike tours is all I can offer in return ;) - on 13 June last year with the subject of my first article, - he set Psalm 121 for choir and organ, and nobody performed it yet, because the organ part is too difficult. I better upload an image of the interior. - When we sang the gently soaring Mendelssohn (pictured on my user page this year) the chaplain on duty kindly said that women's choir has been called "wie im Himmel" (as in Heaven) in Salzburg. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:51, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Eebahgum - then you might enjoy the oft-repeated story of the Soviet Russian tenor Victor Nikitin who was born with a beautiful voice, but missed all or most of his training due to war, but when he sang in the trenches the German soldiers stopped firing to listen. And on another track - I (who have no religion) have always wanted to stand on top of a mountain at dawn and sing Sol Ovitur - a mediaeval hymn to Jesus as the rising sun, with the melody and the melismas taken straight and unaltered from the Arab tradition. As John Lennon said - "imagine there's no countries". Storye book (talk) 11:06, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou for that - difficult to get up that mountain and then sing those melismata without the aspirates, at any rate for me (for any hill makes me huff and puff nowadays)! ;- It's said that Caruso used to call the daily news to the neighbouring hilltop village in his youth. And if your "hill" happens to be F6, who knows what you, or anyone else, may find at the top of it? The Book of Samuel warns us against worship of high places. Eebahgum (talk) 12:12, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Eebahgum, I have been surrounded by mountains most of my life. From Italy where we lived in the Piedmont, to Montana, to Alaska (two mountain ranges), I love climbing. I have now worn a path to my favorite overlook of the lake from Sirr Mt. Even in snow that is feet deep I will walk or mush to sing my morning songs as often as possible. I have done this for as long as I can remember every where I have lived. My songs are different than most but they are sung from my heart and my Spirit. They often are of those I love and care about. They are also songs of thanks to creator and the universe. They are tributes to the Colors I hear and the Songs I see around me. Sometimes I drag my cello or carry a flute or take my bowls to play. On the rare occasion I am accompanied by a friend that brings his drum. When he is not with me my heart keeps beat. It is not a life for everyone, there are hardships around ever bend in the river, but it is a life I love and a life I intend to live as full as I possibly can. I will sing a song for you and the little one. --ARoseWolf 14:38, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou, Asareel. Eebahgum (talk) 17:24, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

thank you all, and don't miss edit summary "A symphony is heard from the tops of the mountain to the depth of the sea, a symphony of Life and Love". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:51, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Abyssus abyssum invocat in voce cataractarum tuarum", he says in Psalm 42/41. And from the Soul to the Firmament. Eebahgum (talk) 17:24, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New: Black women Continuing: Climate

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

I picked what's for me --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:25, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding this. I won't contest it. Sorry I offended you. -- Valjean (talk) 20:26, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not offended, but think I explained before that I don't want much white space to come with the template automatically. If a recipient prefers that, fine, and if you'd change your post by a preceding "clear", I'd also understand. I add a preceding "clear" if I see something in the right corner of a page, such as an archive box, which would separate header and image, and I add it when it separates header and box of the following comment, such as arbcom messages (when I notice). But I like normal text flowing freely ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have no knowledge of any preceding history with those awards or spacing on that page. I just noticed that the image was flowing into other sections and added the "clear"s. I'm totally fine with anyone formatting their talk page as they wish. -- Valjean (talk) 22:14, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Guten Morgen Gerda, ich hoffe dir geht es gut. Kannst du mir sagen, wer im englischen WP berechtigt ist, Artikel zu bewerten und solche Noten zu vergeben: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Quality_scale ?

Liebe Grüße -  Gisbert ツ (talk)  Illustrate Wikipedia !   05:22, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, no, I'm not interested in that topic. Classical music has no classes, did you know? stub, start, GA, FA, that's all. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:53, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Stub bis C darf jeder vergeben, inklusive der Haupt-Autoren des Artikels. Die Einstufung B sollte idealerweise von irgendjemand anders sein. GA und FA gehen durch zentrale Prozesse. —Kusma (talk) 07:58, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

danke --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 1 February 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Heinz Werner Zimmermann, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 17:44, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know that the article was begun by Jerome Kohl? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:26, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Recent deaths - similarly:

• Herbert Achternbusch - PFHLai (talk) 20:56, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Emil Mangelsdorff - Stephen 00:16, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Erwin Eisch - Spencer^T•C 22:19, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Georg Christoph Biller - El_C 22:31, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Thank you, El C, you are top. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:42, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Hans Neuenfels - Stephen 22:39, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• George Crumb - Muboshgu (talk) 23:27, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Peter Merseburger - PFHLai (talk) 03:59, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Franz Grave - PFHLai (talk) 01:06, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Christian Herwartz - TJMSmith (talk) 12:36, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Antonietta Stella - PFHLai (talk) 20:12, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Eleonore Schönborn - TJMSmith (talk) 12:23, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Inge Deutschkron - TJMSmith (talk) 17:12, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oksana Shvets - PFHLai (talk) 04:45, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Artem Datsyshyn - PFHLai (talk) 23:08, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Michail Jurowski - PFHLai (talk) 18:18, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Serhiy Kot - Spencer^T•C 02:35, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Maks Levin - PFHLai (talk) 03:25, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Birgit Nordin - PFHLai (talk) 02:15, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Hellmuth Matiasek - PFHLai (talk) 01:23, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Philippe Boesmans - Spencer^T•C 00:17, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  article begun by GuillaumeTell --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:09, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Larysa Khorolets - PFHLai (talk) 11:07, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Radu Lupu - nominated - Spencer^T•C 00:22, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Harrison Birtwistle - Stephen 04:13, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Renate Holm - Pawnkingthree (talk) 18:31, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Ursula Lehr - PFHLai (talk) 05:03, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Qin Yi - Muboshgu (talk) 04:16, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Teresa Berganza - PFHLai (talk) 21:47, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• William Bennett (flautist) - Spencer^T•C 05:27, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Klara Höfels - Stephen 09:42, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Thomas Resetarits - El_C 12:33, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Horst Sachtleben - filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 13:03, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Victor von Halem - PFHLai (talk) 21:02, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Friedrich Christian Delius - Spencer^T•C 02:32, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Kai Bumann - PFHLai (talk) 00:57, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Erasmus Schöfer - PFHLai (talk) 18:23, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Christof May - PFHLai (talk) 14:24, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Ivonne Haza - PFHLai (talk) 15:03, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Kurt Equiluz - PFHLai (talk) 04:17, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Hans-Dieter Bader - PFHLai (talk) 15:55, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Ernst Jacobi - Muboshgu (talk) 04:13, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Katja Husen - PFHLai (talk) 10:02, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Richard Taruskin - Spencer^T•C 08:51, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Peter Brook - El_C 18:20, 6 July 2022 (UTC) (posted by Tone)[reply]
• Alfred Koerppen - Anarchyte (talk) 15:10, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Ruslana Pysanka - PFHLai (talk) 23:21, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Hans-Joachim Hespos - PFHLai (talk) 12:11, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Alice Harnoncourt - PFHLai (talk) 17:20, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Maria Frisé - PFHLai (talk) 23:34, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Anastasiya Kobzarenko - PFHLai (talk) 15:15, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Eike Christian Hirsch - PFHLai (talk) 08:35, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Zofia Posmysz - PFHLai (talk) 17:52, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Jean-Jacques Sempé - El_C 20:22, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Matti Lehtinen - PFHLai (talk) 19:07, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Theo Sommer - PFHLai (talk) 23:31, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Ruth Lapide - Spencer^T•C 09:08, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Lars Vogt - PFHLai (talk) 05:27, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Mariella Mehr - DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 21:00, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Jörg Faerber - PFHLai (talk) 14:56, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Barbara Stamm - PFHLai (talk) 05:50, 8 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Mariana Nicolesco - Stephen 03:55, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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• Libor Pešek - Stephen 23:41, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Galina Pisarenko - Stephen 08:25, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Hannah Pick-Goslar - PFHLai (talk) 19:10, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Wolf Schneider - PFHLai (talk) 18:01, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Werner Schulz - Spencer^T•C 02:35, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Ned Rorem - PFHLai (talk) 11:59, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Azio Corghi - PFHLai (talk) 22:13, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Michael Hampe - PFHLai (talk) 04:36, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Bagumba (talk) 10:19, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Jens Bullerjahn - Spencer^T•C 01:19, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Christiane Hörbiger - Sam Walton (talk) 21:18, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Volodymyr Kozhukhar - PFHLai (talk) 02:15, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Wolf Erlbruch - PFHLai (talk) 18:20, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Werner Leich - PFHLai (talk) 02:30, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Dieter Henrich - PFHLai (talk) 03:05, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Wim Henderickx - Bagumba (talk) 22:44, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Manfred Messerschmidt - Spencer^T•C 01:19, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 1 February 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Georg Christoph Biller, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. El_C 22:31, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, El C, you are top. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:42, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gerda, just saw that you removed a talk header from the Maureen Harding Clark article. I used to add a header to most (if not all) articles I created since I knew about it. I'll refrain from doing so in the future and only add one if there is a discussion.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 22:46, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Paradise Chronicle, less work for you: only for pages where good faith is in danger, - as the template documentation said: "Talk pages that are frequently misused, that attract frequent or perpetual debate, articles often subject to controversy, and highly-visible or popular topics may be appropriate for this template." - Only, researching now, I found that the line was dropped in the meantime, rather recently. I will not remove the template then, but I will not clutter articles I write with it, the first thing saying to some entering that they need to be told to assume good faith ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:05, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the research :). I'll still add it then, but to less articles.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 23:15, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Iridescent, what do you think? - I missed the change of the template doc. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:32, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 4 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Die ersten Menschen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rudi Stephan was already composing the opera Die ersten Menschen when the 1908 drama about the first humans by Otto Borngräber, on which it is based, was banned in Bavaria? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Die ersten Menschen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Die ersten Menschen), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

this was another premiere by the Oper Frankfurt --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:48, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, can you review this article (Abel Decaux) for me? I recently undertook a large-scale expansion of it, a large part coming from the French article. I also added some information I knew not present in the aforementioned article. MarcelDupré1886 (talk) 17:58, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

if you have patience, yes, I don't speak French, though, so perhaps better ask someone else (also) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:11, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 6 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn, BWV 157, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bach's cantata Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn was first performed 295 years ago today during a memorial service for Johann Christoph von Ponickau (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn, BWV 157. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn, BWV 157), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

as you can read on my user page: begun by Dr. Blofeld, expanded by Nikkimaria, further expanded together, and I thought about having lost RexxS for this project when I heard it last year --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:44, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since you are kind enough to thank everyone else on the day of their TFAs: thank you today for

Letter to the Romans. The music, in a symmetrical arrangement of 11 movements, displays various vocal scorings (from 3 to 5 voices) and compositional variation and finesse. For the longest time, the motet was believed to have been composed for a certain funeral, but recent scholarship questioned that."! DanCherek (talk) 03:52, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply

Thank you Dan, that's lovely! It was the work of many writing, reviewing, inspiring, - thanks to all! (more later) It played a special role in my life (perhaps more later). For the record the entry as Br'er Rabbit might have wanted it:

Beginning of the first movement

Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), BWV 227, is a motet by J. S. Bach. In eleven movements for up to five voices, it is his longest and most musically complex motet. It is named after the 1653 Lutheran hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" by Johann Franck; the hymn's six stanzas form the motet's odd-numbered movements. Bach used the hymn tune by Johann Crüger in five different chorale settings (example pictured). The hymn's text focuses on an emotional bond to Jesus, complementing the doctrinal text from the Epistle to the Romans used for the even-numbered movements. Jesu, meine Freude is one of the few works by Bach for five vocal parts, in a structure of symmetries on different layers. It is unclear when the motet was written. Bach scholar Christoph Wolff believed that Bach may have compiled it to educate his choir incomposition techniques and theology; an earlier theory that it was written for a 1723 funeral in Leipzig is now discredited. In 1927, it became the first of Bach motets to be recorded.

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"Jesus, my joy"; wonderful words, especially in these times. A good read! Panini!^🥪 13:53, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad to see another editor had the same thought as me (thanks, DanCherek!) and came to your page to give you a thanks. Nice work here, Gerda. Cheers. Tkbrett (✉) 15:31, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, both, and - as said above - the many others involved. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Gerda, and all the others, for writing this up so beautifully. Drmies (talk) 16:37, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What an absolute joy to read and very deserving of TFA. Gerda and others, the writing of this article very eloquently describes this beautiful motet. Thank you to all involved! --ARoseWolf 18:10, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you two, blushing a bit. For the album: 7 February 2022, - two women pictured, I like that, and late also Neuenfels (for whom I need to do a bit more). Help with George Crumb welcome, everybody. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:55, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

both these articles are better, but improvements still wanted --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:28, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 7 February 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Hans Neuenfels, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 22:39, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gerta, last night I came across this interesting short documentary:[1]. I of course immediately went to Wikipedia to learn about

I've looked up MGG but they don't have an article on him; only mentioning him in the Eisenach entry ([2]), describing the history of the organs of the Georgenkirche:

Teile der Franziskanerkirchen-Orgel fanden 1575 Verwendung beim Neubau der Georgen-Orgel durch Georg Schauenberg. Joh. Chr. Bach (1642-1703) und der Orgelbauer Georg Christoph Stertzing erarbeiteten gemeinsam die Disposition für eine neue Orgel, die 1697-1707 errichtet wurde. J. Adlung teilte deren Disposition in seiner Musica mechanica organoedi (Berlin 1768) mit. Weitere Neubauten erfolgten 1849 durch die Firma Holland (Schmiedefeld/Thüringen), 1911 durch die Firma Jehmlich (Dresden) und 1983 durch die Firma Schuke (Potsdam).

It also credits him with working on other organs in other churches in the town:

In der romanischen Nicolaikirche errichtete 1625 Hans Scheffer aus Eschwege eine neue Orgel, die 1717 durch ein Werk des Eisenacher Johann Georg Stertzing (auch Sterzing) ersetzt wurde. 1855 gab es hier ein weiteres neues Werk der Firma Markert (Ostheim) und 1927 eine Orgel der Firma Jehmlich (Dresden). Für die Annenkirche ist 1665 ein Orgelpositiv des Eisenacher Orgelbauers Christoph Knott nachweisbar. Auch in der Kreuzkirche hatte um 1710 Georg Christoph Stertzing eine Orgel gebaut.

However, Grove does have an entry of the Stertzing family as a whole. @Thriley: It's a bit late at night here for me to start writing stuff up, but if you're interested, I can mail you over the contents if you don't have access to it. Or I'll bother with checking it tomorrow. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 05:56, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and interesting, - I'll look but two people died who deserve better articles, and one is on the Main page already, - later. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:55, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

RandomCanadian Thank you! Feel free to email! Best, Thriley (talk) 17:39, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And is it that long? The older you get, the faster time flies. Wetman 2603:7000:9901:41BA:6C73:73C:2892:ED (talk) 13:38, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is, not relying on my memory but the archive. Look around for music, - always liked chatting with you on the precious occasions! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:41, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Guten Abend Gerda, du hast mir für den Wechsel des Fotos gedankt. Wie findest du die Version dieses Fotos in der niederländischen WP? ---  Gisbert ツ (talk)  Illustrate Wikipedia !   20:59, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

the format is rather more standard, and once her upper arm is "cut", why not the lower also? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ich hatte eher den Hintergrund im Blick: schwarz auf nl, jetzt weiß (statt blau mit grauem Streifen) auf en.---  Gisbert ツ (talk)  Illustrate Wikipedia !   04:16, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I was blind for the background, - now that I looked I find the black needlessly dramatic. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:32, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 9 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article St. Sylvester, Schwabing, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that St. Sylvester is a Catholic church that combines the old village church of Schwabing, now part of Munich, and a 20th-century expansion under one roof? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/St. Sylvester, Schwabing. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, St. Sylvester, Schwabing), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

... and that I spent Silvester at St. Sylvester? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:32, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to publicise User:Boud/Draft:WikiProject Peace to people likely to be interested. Boud (talk) 22:12, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

this looks like a good idea, countering all the battles, but - with a backlog of my own projects - I feel I can't commit to serious work. Call me when translations from German are needed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:04, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 10 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Holger Mühlbauer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Holger Mühlbauer, who currently serves as the managing director of the German IT security association TeleTrusT, originally trained as a metalworker? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Holger Mühlbauer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Holger Mühlbauer), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:03, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gerda, I've noticed that you have been nominating older articles for TFA. I think this is great because it helps with TFA diversity. There's a project called

thank you, - I only nominate where I check the quality myself, but feel free to doublecheck --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:04, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! GiantSnowman 14:43, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for coming over --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:29, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Gerda, it's truly a pleasure to hear again from a cordial and constructive individual who works to bring light, rather than heat, to Wikipedia and to the world! Nihil novi (talk) 09:29, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

...coincidentially, also 45th wedding anniversary. David notMD (talk) 09:48, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

that's cute, David, please pass the little Valentine flowers to your wife, with congratulations ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:30, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 10 February 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article George Crumb, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:27, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for yours efforts on Marguerite Priola, including the box. You may be interested to know that the image has been nominated for FP. See the WiR talk page for details. If it gets enough support, sooner or later it should be featured on the main page. Enjoy your vacation. We'll be driving back to Luxembourg from Denmark tomorrow.--Ipigott (talk) 15:36, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo Gerda and thanks for completing drafts I involuntarily left behind. Still active on the French Wiki although at a much slower pace than before. Like the Olympics in 1900, the aim and values were praise worthy then and now... I still have fun translating articles from German and English under I.P though, the attribution issue being now completely meaningless.

I post this message from a Parisian cybercafe so if any well meant sysop wants to delete it and block the E.P, who cares ?

I wish you well. LouisAlain.

Thank you, I love love. Just returned from a concert with mostly French organ music played by the new one at the Boni, details above. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:49, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 19 February 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Peter Merseburger, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 03:59, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Silbenstrich (AfD discussion
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Any lurkers interested in musical notation might like to join in. Uncle G (talk) 06:17, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• I left a comment. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:37, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • As a de-N, enjoy the German source. ☺ vide Johannes de Garlandia (music theorist). Uncle G (talk) 19:37, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Gerda: Please, please, please stop reformatting Bach cantata as you did this morning. That formatting is unlike anything I've ever seen in a lede. You did the same thing on List of Bach cantatas, again breaking conventions/consensus on ledes. Why are making edits like this? Please stop. Thanks, Mathsci (talk) 09:39, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What do you suggest to mention these dedicated articles more prominently, for background? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:49, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I hope I found a way: including the links in the prose (but silently thinking that they are less obvious that way). Everybody: we talk about

Cantatas (Bach), and - name derived from it - Bach cantata, meant (in 2010) as an introduction to them. Now some think that the derived name is not good, and a move request is up (by JackofOz) to move it - of all names - to the present redirect for the list article. Confusion guaranteed. Help with a better name - if we really need one - wanted!! It doesn't help that - as I noticed only now - a sophisticated list was added recently to the introduction article, which should probably be split in introduction - if we still want it - and that list.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:35, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply

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Denn wie man sich bettet, so liegt man · Es deckt einen da keiner zu · Und wenn einer tritt, dann bin ich es · Und wird einer getreten, dann bist’s du. on

YouTube. Mathsci (talk) 10:59, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply

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thank you --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:38, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you

canvassing other wikipedians? Mathsci (talk) 15:58, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply

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I am not, I just explain what is not obvious to someone unaware of the history. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:52, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have article plans, no time for discussing the names of irrelevant articles. Hard not to remember the song of the

YouTube --Mathsci (talk) 09:57, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply

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interesting connection - everybody knows my real name, and you should not quote out of context: the key information of my comment being Chanson à bouche fermée. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:06, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

nobody needs the article Bach cantata I am surprised that you wrote that. It does take effort and experience to create general introductory content. In this case, there are at least 6 good reliable sources that give general concise and readable introductory texts that do not involve lists. In the German/English language, there are 60 pages by

Clavier-Übung I. For Clavier-Übung III, introductory content does exist on wikipedia (and is summarised from Peter Williams' books). Mathsci (talk) 16:41, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply

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A good article about the subject would be needed, but I am quite critical of my poor efforts of long ago, and that's what we have, and that's what is no longer linked from other articles. (Take BWV 1, for example.) You might be better to write a proper introduction. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:52, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you on that. The Harnoncourt-Leonhardt boxed set has 98 pages in English in the hardcover booklet, written by Dürr, Schuhmacher, Krummacher, Geck, Wolff, Jordahn, Hoffmann-Erbecht, Gojowy, Harnoncourt and Blankenburg. OTOH for Handel, for example, the BBC guide to Handel Concertos by Stanley Sadie is a good source: I've used it for 3 articles. Similarly the three volumes of Winton Dean on Handel's Operas and Oratorios are good sources: individual operas take some effort (I helped with Giulio Cesare). Sometimes "less is more": Frédéric Chopin, for example, is concise yet encyclopedic. Mathsci (talk) 17:37, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

...hierfür Herr, gib uns Mut zum Hören LG --Ἀστερίσκος (talk) 10:36, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

gerne! besonders gerne sogar denn Mut - courage - war letztes Jahr mein Schlüsselwort. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:59, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

well done :-) --Ἀστερίσκος (talk) 18:42, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

... und nun de:In Freundschaft --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:12, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sehr schön, freut mich sehr, besonders auf der Basis meiner damaligen Freundschaft zum Komponisten ,-) LG--Ἀστερίσκος (talk) 19:34, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ein Freund von mir ist Komponist, und sein Vater war ein Freund von Stockhausen, der In Freundschaft komponiert hat, und der Benutzer, der den Artikel über das Werk geschrieben hat, war ein Freund hier, auch wenn ich ihn getroffen habe. Und ein anderer Freund hat in einer Aufführung von Hymnen mitgewirkt, und sich gefreut, dass sie im Artikel erwähnt wird. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:42, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Na, alle Achtung! Hatte mal einen kurzen Wortwechsel mit JK, wusste nicht, dass er 2020+ LG --Ἀστερίσκος (talk) 20:00, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 22 February 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Franz Grave, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 01:06, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You

Thank You-RFD (talk) 14:35, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for creating the article! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:32, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You-Franz Grave

Again thank you-RFD (talk) 20:05, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Gerda Arendt, hope you are doing well. I am reaching out as a courtesy to let you know that I've put forward a second TFA nomination for the April 22 date, after your nomination of Kathleen Ferrier. Don't know yet if mine will be selected, but thought it would be proper to let you know that I have also put my interest on that date as well. Truly admire how you keep Brian Boulton's memory alive with all of his wonderful work. Thank you for your time and have a great start to your week! Pseud 14 (talk) 03:22, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for telling me --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:16, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gerda, I just saw this (from 2009) on the internet and find we are both in it! And for the right reasons...! I didn't know I was such a pompous windbag back in 2009 (but it comes as no surprise). I wonder if you ever saw it? Maybe I did, and have forgotten, but the Internet is (almost) eternal. That is even pre-Precious... I had only been editing for 3 years! Eebahgum (talk) 22:04, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(Scrolling down) and I seem to have responded at the time but had totally forgotten about it. I am a dotard Eebahgum (talk) 22:10, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

no, had not seen that, cute, thank you ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:12, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Like my new user-talk photo? Makes a nice seasonal desktop. BTW, I discovered there's no English version of Schloss Wellenburg. – Sca (talk) 16:43, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

thank you, lovely - I'm busy with a translation and booked into March, - perhaps Vami IV could help? Or try a translation in a sandbox and let me check it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:50, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]