Talk:Ballet (music)
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[edit] "The Haarlem Tulip" and "Boris Fitinhof-Schell"
On 11th August 2006, user:Mrlopez2681 added the section about the obscure ballet "The Haarlem Tulip" and the even more obscure "Boris Fitinhof-Schell". I can find only one reference to him - did he ever exist? This text was lifted almost verbatim from an Amazon review of "Raymonda", written originally on January 13 2006, and so is a copyright violation. It was of course Tchaikovsky who was the first symphonist to write a full-length ballet (1877). Huge areas of ballet music history are omitted from this article. What about Lully's ballets, and the fact that from about 1750 to 1830 most ballets were merely short interludes in operas? I am tempted to do a major edit, cutting out the Boris Fitinhof-Schell part, but I will pause first to allow others to comment.Ogg 09:35, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I have re-written the history to be more inclusive, to remove the (non existent?) obscure composer Boris Fitinhof-Schell, and to avoid text that might have been taken from the article on Minkus.Ogg
[edit] Copyrighted text
I've just removed a copyright violation (added with this diff) which conveniently was added with a link to the source text. I don't think any of it was incorporated elsewhere in the article. --Keitei (talk) 09:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding Ogg's statement
I'm the one who wrote the article on amazon, and Im also the one who wrote the stuff you deleted. I dont think it is a copyright violation when the creator copies his own stuff.
Unfortuately I never got around to finishing this article, and I actually forgot about it to tell you the truth. Why not leave writing articles about certain subjects to people who know it intimately.
Fitinhof-Schell was the first symphonic composer to ever score ballet music, and was a classmate of Tchaikovsky's.
Why on earth would I cite a man that never existed?
--Mrlopez2681 03:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
