User:Durova

Greetings from California.

Hi, I'm an editor on English Wikipedia and an administrator on Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource.

A recording, a score, and a portrait [edit]

One of the projects I'm working on is to provide good media packets for composers and songwriters. This involves cross-project collaboration between Commons, English Wikisource, and English Wikipedia.

A bust of Beethoven taken from his death mask.

Manuscript notes for Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 28.

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28, first movement (help | download or online player | file info)

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28, second movement (help | download or online player | file info)

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28, third and fourth movements (help | download or online player | file info)

The overall idea is to provide useful illustrative media that migrates easily between different language editions of Wikipedia. It's easier to translate a caption than an entire article, so smaller language projects gain an easy way of providing useful content to their readers. With good restored examples of a recording, a score, and a portrait it's possible to convey a lot of information about a composer even if an article is a stub. I'm working with a team of people and so far we've completed media packets for Ludwig van Beethoven, Irving Berlin, Carlos Gardel, and Scott Joplin. We'd like to do as many as possible and welcome international material.