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Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121

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Martin Luther in 1529

... that on 26 December 1724, Bach led the first performance of Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121, for the second day of Christmas, based on a hymn that Luther (pictured) had derived in 1524 from an early Latin hymn? Source: several
- Reviewed: Lilium lophophorum
- Comment: Obviously for 26 December. Obviously too long, please help. It would be easy to drop "for the second day of Christmas", but I'm not sure people know enough about German tradition to immediately know that. (In Leipzig at Bach's time, they had three days of Christmas.) Not so easy to point at a 500th and a 300th "birthday" in one hook. The article is close to being GA, but not quite there, - I got nervous.

Improved to Good Article status by Gerda Arendt (talk) and Nikkimaria (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 2128 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 17 December 2024 (UTC).

Hi, I'll be reviewing this!

General eligibility:

New enough: - ?
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Adequate sourcing:
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Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is not yet a GA, and as such is ineligible, although is good spirit I'll keep it open till it (hopefully) passes. Article is long enough, the picture is PD and clear, although I do have a concern with the hook and WP:DYKINT, I'm confused by "second day of Christmas". It seems too "topic-specifc", but that's just my opnion. May I suggest ALT0a: "...that Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121 is based on Martin Luther's (pictured) Christum wir sollen loben schon, which in turn is based on the 5th-century A solis ortus cardine?" I don't think length is that much of a concern. Pinging @Gerda Arendt: and @Nikkimaria:. :) E_F⁵ 16:13, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing, but I wonder why you didn't wait a bit. (I wanted to get the nomination done, because an approval could come while I sleep, for example.) Thank you for the ALT but I think to repeat the title (cantata and hymn) is the most boring thing we can do. I believe that for the general reader, the 300 years on the very day are of more interest, don't you think so? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:21, 17 December 2024 (UTC)