Template:Did you know nominations/Martin Greif (poet)

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:15, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Martin Greif (poet)[edit]

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Greif in 1910

... that poems by Martin Greif (pictured) inspired music by Max Reger, Alban Berg, Anton Webern and possibly Gustav Mahler? Source: one for each

Reviewed: William Daniel (Maryland politician)

Created by Gerda Arendt (talk). Self-nominated at 10:40, 28 January 2017 (UTC).

New enough when nominated, long enough. Neutral, cited (including at least one source I couldn't access), and no close paraphrasing detected in spot-checks. QPQ complete. The hook is short enough and mostly cited. I had trouble locating the information on Reger in the cited source. Could you point me to the sentence supporting that? As far as interesting goes, I'm kind of left wondering why I care about these four guys. Perhaps that's because I'm not much for more classical music, but this fact doesn't really "wow" me. Personally, I find "retired from an eight-year career in the military to become a poet and playwright" to be a more interesting fact. There's enough dissonance between those career choices that I would be intrigued if I read that. Thoughts? ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 13:13, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for looking. The four are among the greatest composers of all times, so I think it's interesting, and readers not knowing them can stop reading after "music" and still find it interesting, as inspiring creativity. We could say "songs" instead of "music" but the Mahler work is a rather giant "song" ;) - Let's face it: Greif's plays, celebrated at his lifetime, are not performed any more, but Das klagende Lied is, - intriguing (for me) that Greif wrote a poem of that title. To change a military career for poetry seems less personal, imo, many may dream of it, and possibly some even do it. - For Reger, I now copied from his Op. 4, - at the bottom is a link to Sätze (movements). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:31, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Fair enough. The new cite looks fine. AGF on some of the foreign language/offline sources. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 13:42, 7 February 2017 (UTC)