# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-koshetz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:39:33.193Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-koshetz"
name: "Alexander Koshetz"
slug: "alexander-koshetz"
description: "Alexander Antonovich Koshetz was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lecturer. Koshetz built a prominent conducting career in Kyiv, before going on to be one of the most prominent international promoters of Ukrainian music worldwide. He is best known for his promotion of Mykola Leontovych's \"Shchedryk\", the precursor to the Christmas song Carol of the Bells, during his worldwide tour with the Ukrainian Republican Capella."
tagline: "Ukrainian composer and musicologist (1875–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oleksander_Koshetz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1875-08-31"
deathDate: "1944-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.36699333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "اليكساندر كوشيتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Oleksandr Koschyz"
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    title: "Αλεξάντρ Κόσιτς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Koshetz"
    title: "Alexander Koshetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Oleksandr Koshetz"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kochetz"
    title: "Alexander Kochetz"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aleksandr Koshits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Koshetz"
    title: "Alexander Koshetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/481aa44c-4df1-40d9-ba87-86a00fb55989"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump