Talk:Allan Pettersson

"some of the longest single movement orchestral works ever written"
not a provable statement, or if it is, cite not just some critic's opinion but a survey of one-movement orchestral works or something that will go a way to - when it comes down to it, frankly, I don't think you can prove this; there might be a hoard of 30-hour one-movement orchestral works out there as unknown to us as Pettersson was unknown to most of us awhile back. It's most likely- in so far as the term "most likely" makes sense in this context (it doesn't really; statistics/probability don't play a role here) that they're at best mediocre, if so, unlike- in my opinion- the rather good (at least) Pettersson works; but sight and sound unseen we do not know anything about them, including whether or not they exist, and should stick with what we know. Even - rewriting hypothetically - "among the longest... yet performed" is a bit of a stretch since no one claims to know all public or private performances of all works ... I'd say drop the statement wholly, that it's fine in a promotional piece and very much not so on Wikipedia. Is anyone not clear on the difference and need explaining? Schissel | Sound the Note! 20:53, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree, this statement can't be proved. Pettersson's symphonies are also not listed in "Guinness World Records Book", like Brian's Gothic. So it's better to remove that part. 84.119.105.83 (talk) 11:28, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Gustaf or Gustav
"Official" Swedish sources, like Svenskt biografiskt lexikon and gravar.se spell his name "Gustaf Allan Pettersson". So Gustav is obviously not the correct spelling. 176.199.37.91 (talk) 11:20, 4 May 2015 (UTC)