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Add 3 missing composers from the Composer Diversity Database (and some of their works) to MusicBrainz

The Composer Diversity Database is a resource to find information about classical composers who are part of one or more minorities (women, non-white, non-binary, etc). These groups tend to be underrepresented in music, and this is also true in MusicBrainz, where only the most famous of these composers usually have an entry.

Your task is to find 3 composers from the database who are not yet in MusicBrainz, and add entries for them (make sure they're not in MusicBrainz first under a somewhat different name, for example in the Cyrillic or Japanese scripts).

For each composer, you should add as much info as you can find (not just the info that is available in the Composer Diversity Database). For example, if they have an official website, add that. If you find birth (and possibly death) dates and locations, add them! A Wikipedia (or ideally Wikidata) link would be great too.

Finally, for each composer, try to find at least 5 works (compositions) and add those too. Those can often be found in official websites or Wikipedia, but sometimes you'll find them elsewhere, like in publisher pages (example). If you can't find 5 works for each composer, you can add more to one than the others, up to a total of 15. If you can't find 15 for all of them combined, you can add missing works to other composers from the Database that we already have in MusicBrainz – just try to get 15 added in total!

To complete the task, leave a comment with links for the artists and works.

Task tags

  • musicbrainz
  • no code
  • diversity
  • data entry
  • classical

Students who completed this task

abhi_ohri, MalinaK, KVD, Kapish, TrapIll, C1e0

Task type

  • chrome_reader_mode Documentation / Training
  • assessment Outreach / Research
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2018