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Symphony No. 9

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ232781 ↗
Source-derived summary

Symphony No. 9 most commonly refers to:

Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) in D minor (Op. 125, Choral) by Ludwig van Beethoven, 1822–24

Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák) in E minor (Op. 95, B. 178, From the New World) by Antonín Dvořák, 1893

Symphonies

Symphony No. 9 (Arnold) (Op. 128) by Malcolm Arnold, 1986

Symphony No. 9 (Brian) in A minor by Havergal Brian, 1951

Symphony No. 9 (Bruckner) in D minor (WAB 109, dem lieben Gott) by Anton Bruckner, 1887–96 (unfinished)

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1822, 1893, 1986, 1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Symphony, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q232781. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1822, 1893, 1986 and 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “Symphony No. 9” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.