Arts and Music Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
46 statements marked Debated.
Romanticism, Start Year1800
Romanticism, Movements
Standing
Concerns Start Year
Currently States 1800
Historians differ on whether musical Romanticism begins with Beethoven's middle and late works around 1800 to 1810 or only with the generation of composers, such as Schubert and Schumann, who came directly after him.
Source The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Stanley Sadie, editor (successive editions)
Romanticism, End Year1910
Romanticism, Movements
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 1910
1910 is a conventional closing date associated with the late Romantic and early modernist transition in composers such as Mahler and Debussy; there is no agreed single end point, and late Romantic style persisted in some composers well into the twentieth century.
Source The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Stanley Sadie, editor (successive editions)
Surrealism, End Year1966
Surrealism, Movements
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 1966
Andre Breton, the movement's founder and chief theorist, died in 1966, and the formal Surrealist group dissolved in 1969. Some historians treat the movement as continuing informally well beyond either date, so no single end year is fully settled.
Source Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
Symbolism, End Year1910
Symbolism, Movements
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 1910
TheArtStory dates Symbolism 1880 to 1910, describing it as a transition from Romanticism to modernism rather than a movement with a sharp closing event; 1910 is the source's own closing marker.
Source TheArtStory
William Shakespeare, Birth Year1564
William Shakespeare, Birth Date1564-04-23
William Shakespeare, Artists
Standing
Concerns Birth Date
Currently States 1564-04-23
Shakespeare's actual birth date was not recorded; his baptism is dated 26 April 1564, and 23 April is traditionally observed as his birthday.
Source Wikipedia