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composer dates/flourished?
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:06 am
by andrewt
I just created the composer page
http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Doll%C3%A9,_Charles for Charles Dolle. His Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dolle states that he flourished between the listed dates. How can I reflect that on IMSLP (sort of like "ca."?)? For now I just put those dates as his birth and death dates.
Re: composer dates/flourished?
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:08 am
by noqu
I believe the term "flourish" refers to the time of his activity as a composer, not his life time. French Wikipedia
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Doll%C3%A9 says he was born in 1710 but also admits that not much is known about him.
Re: composer dates/flourished?
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:04 am
by pml
The usual shorthand for this is to display fl. (= Lat. floruit, "flourished") beside the dates instead of ca.
Regards, PML
Re: composer dates/flourished?
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:28 pm
by KGill
I also found the dates 1699-1782
here, which I've put on the composer page. If, however, dates could not have been found, you can make the category display 'fl.', 'ca.', etc. by changing the text |Born Year= (etc.) to |Birth Date=fl. (etc.).
Re: composer dates/flourished?
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:46 pm
by andrewt
OK thanks.