User:Gerda Arendt

User:Gerda Arendt
User:Gerda Arendt
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Born	August 2, 2009 (age 14); Idstein, Germany
Other names	User:Gerda the Notorious Infoboxen wikiCriminal
Education	Technische Hochschule Hannover
Occupation	"singen, singen"
Known for	List of Bach cantatas; He was despised; Franz Kafka;
Criminal penalty	Arbcom sanctions
Awards	Precious (given); Kindness; Excellence; Team; Impact; Million;
	people, places, performances; vote; quality article improvement

closed for the season

Peace · Reformation · Memories · Images · 2013 · 2012 · 2011

Did you know ...

... that instruments in Bach's cantata for Epiphany, Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen (They will all come from Sheba), have been compared to the salamiya and zurna?
... that the song "Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?
... that Bach set Johann Gramann's hymn "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" in a cantata reflecting the end of the year with praise?
... that A Boy was Born, the first major vocal composition by Benjamin Britten, received its premiere in 1934 as a BBC broadcast?
... that Patrice Chéreau, the stage director of the Jahrhundertring in Bayreuth, directed the film Intimacy, which "sparked a debate about unsimulated sex on screen"?
... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor?
... that Michael Herrmann is founder-director of the Rheingau Musik Festival, which holds about 150 concerts every season in vineyards and historical buildings?
... that the Baroque orchestra L'arpa festante produced the first recording of a Passion by Telemann and played Bach's Mass in B minor in the Cathedral of Trier?
... that Karlheinz Oswald created sculptures of Cardinal Volk, Pierre de Coubertin, and Hildegard of Bingen?
... that the musicians of the chamber orchestra Kammerorchester Basel accompanied Andreas Scholl in Bach cantatas and also sang the closing chorale?
... that Epitaphium, composed for string trio by Graham Waterhouse, is performed today in Wigmore Hall in a memorial concert for his father, the bassoonist William Waterhouse? (16 April 2011)
... that rehearsing Dvořák's Eighth Symphony, a conductor said: "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle – they always call to the dance!"?

... that it took more than half a century to complete the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the collected works of Johann Sebastian Bach?

Every editor is a human being,
and we need to consider regularly whether our view/approach to an issue brings out the best of humanity or not. (Geometry guy 28 February 2012)

Made my day

User:Gerda Arendt has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Gerda Arendt's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Gerda Arendt!

Peace, Rlevse 02:50, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Inspired, I created my own for Precious Support

where I see it.

Did you know ... that in 1968, the German artist Bazon Brock created a sign in the style of a high voltage warning saying "der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..." ("death must be abolished ...")?

death must be abolished,

this damned mess must stop.

He who speaks a word of

consolation is a traitor

(History 13 February 2012, translation: PumpkinSky)

2014

Article name	create	DYK	German	Remarks
Hermann Müller (Idstein)	6 Jan		y	died

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This editor won the Million Award for bringing Franz Kafka to Featured Article status.

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