Template:Did you know nominations/Marga Höffgen

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 13:10, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Marga Höffgen

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... that contralto Marga Höffgen, a Bach singer for Furtwängler and Karajan, and known as Erda in Bayreuth between 1960 and 1975, recorded Max Reger's Requiem compositions?

Reviewed: Peggy Baker
Comment: for women's month or her birthday 26 April - as far as I know she was the only alto who recorded Regers Hebbel-Requiem which he wrote for "alto (or baritone)", while there are several with a male soloist, - but it would be difficult to say and prove

5x expanded by Gerda Arendt (talk). Self nominated at 21:51, 8 March 2015 (UTC).

>5x expanded within the last seven days, meets length requirements, neutral and sourced, no copyvio found. No images, QPQ done. The current hook is a bit unwieldy to my mind and is currently over the character limit: could I suggest something like ALT1 ~~... that contralto Marga Höffgen received the German National Order of Merit?~~ instead?

A few hundred people receive that honour each year, nothing special about her, sorry. We can drop the years, of course loosing a bit how much she was identified with Erda, who needs to stay for rhyming with my name, of course ;) - If you think Furtwängler is no longer known as one of the most important conductors of that time, we could drop him also. - I nominated the article yesterday because of the (women's) date, but there's more to come, btw.. Reger's works are too little known, - DYK is a little chance to change that.

ALT2: ... that contralto Marga Höffgen, known as a Bach singer for Karajan and as Erda in Bayreuth, recorded Max Reger's Requiem compositions? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:41, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Personally I still don't find it too catchy, but if you've got a specific reason for those links then fair enough. Yunshui ^雲 _水 11:57, 9 March 2015 (UTC)