Tavener's The Protecting Veil's Wikipedia article is a community-edited encyclopedia entry, covering the 1988 work for cello and strings, its origin in a request from cellist Steven Isserlis, its BBC Proms commission, and its September 4, 1989 premiere at the Royal Albert Hall. Its strength is that these are the kind of stable, documentable commission and premiere facts a general reference handles well. Its limit is that a claim about the specific Orthodox Christian theology behind the title, the veil of the Theotokos, needs a source examining that directly, not this general production overview.
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Wikipedia's article on Tavener's The Protecting Veil, a community edited tertiary encyclopedia entry with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier, though useful here for the work's composition and premiere facts. NotesEncyclopedic facts for Tavener's 1988 work for cello and strings: its origin in a request from cellist Steven Isserlis, its BBC Proms commission, and its September 4, 1989 premiere at the Royal Albert Hall.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protecting_Veil
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (23 claims)
This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Musical Works, 13 claims: 8 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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