User:Durova/Recording score portrait

The new Wikipedia:WikiProject Media Restoration has several goals. One of them is to assemble media sets for composers and songwriters. This involves cross-project collaboration between Commons, Wikisource, and Wikipedia.

The idea grew out of something I noticed: in over 2 years since I raised Joan of Arc to featured article and the text has been translated into 3 languages. When I started doing image restorations the first one that got featured on Commons got its captions translated into 2 dozen languages within a couple of months. Media travels between languages more easily than articles, so it makes sense to build upon that synergy.

The drive is called a recording, a score, and a portrait: when people can hear the music and read the notes and see the composer's face, it introduces the artist even if an article is a stub. Many thanks to the regulars at Not the Wikipedia Weekly for their help.

A bust of Ludwig van Beethoven taken from his death mask.

Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101: manuscript sketch for movement IV.

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Irving Berlin in 1948.

Cover page for "I Want to Go Back to Michigan", a 1914 Irving Berlin song.

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George M. Cohan, 1933.

Cover page for "Over There", a 1917 George M. Cohan song.

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Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904).

Cover page to book 1 containing Biblical Songs 1-5.

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First page of "Por una Cabeza", a 1935 tango by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera.

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Scott Joplin in 1907.

Cover page for "Maple Leaf Rag", 1899.

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James Scott

Cover page for "Frog Legs Rag", first edition 1906.

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Noble Sissle in 1951.

Cover page for "I'm Just Wild About Harry" from the musical Shuffle Along by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, 1921.

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John Philip Sousa, 1900.

Cover page for "Stars and Stripes Forever".