Composer timelines

This web app (live here on Github pages) displays timelines of events and works for selected composers. Ever wondered what Verdi was up to when Puccini composed his first opera? This app is for you!

The project relies extensively on the ChatGPT API for building an event database from Wikipedia, which makes it extremely easy to add a new composers (see this write-up)

Adding/requesting more composers

Any classical composer with public-domain work from before 1950 is of interest to this project.

Manually

To add a composer, all you need to do is add a COMPOSER NAME.json in data/composer_data, and add an entry for the composer in composers.json.

Via a python script

This can be done by hand through your own research, or automated with ChatGPT via this script:

# python3 -m pip install -r data_collection/requirements.txt
python3 data_collection/add_composer.py --composer="Anatoly Lyadov" --target=public/data/

Via the github actions button (repo admin only)

Go to Actions > Workflows > Add a composer (here) click Run workflow and enter the (full) name of the composer to add. The pipeline will look the composer up on Wikipedia and IMSLP and generate a Pull Request to add the composer's data to the project.

Prerequisites:

• Set OPENAI_AI_KEY as your Github repository secret.
• Go to Settings > Actions > General > Workflow permissions and make sure you give "Read and write permissions" and "Allow GitHub Actions to create and approve pull requests".

Via a PR

PRs are encouraged (one composer per request please). You can also request new composers by opening an Issue in this Github repo, or emailing me.

Running the app locally

Run the project with:

npm install
npm run dev

Navigate to localhost:8080. You should see your app running. Edit a component file in src, save it, and the changes should appear live in the app.

If you're using Visual Studio Code we recommend installing the official extension Svelte for VS Code. If you are using other editors you may need to install a plugin in order to get syntax highlighting and intellisense.

To create an optimised version of the app:

npm run build