# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfonso-ferrabosco-the-elder
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:17.406Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfonso-ferrabosco-the-elder"
name: "Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder"
slug: "alfonso-ferrabosco-the-elder"
description: "Alfonso Ferrabosco was an Italian composer. While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the growth of the madrigal there, he also composed much sacred music. He also may have been a spy for Elizabeth I while he was in Italy."
tagline: "Italian composer (1543–1588)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1543-01-18"
deathDate: "1588-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.810224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "الفونسو فيرابوسكو الاكبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Ferrabosco"
    title: "Alfonso Ferrabosco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Ferrabosco_der_%C3%84ltere"
    title: "Alfonso Ferrabosco der Ältere"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Ferrabosco_the_elder"
    title: "Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Ferrabosco_l'ancien"
    title: "Alfonso Ferrabosco l'ancien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%95_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%95"
    title: "אלפונסו פראבוסקו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Ferrabosco_l'Anziano"
    title: "Alfonso Ferrabosco l'Anziano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9C%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B31%E4%B8%96"
    title: "アルフォンソ・フェッラボスコ1世"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Ferrabosco_den_eldre"
    title: "Alfonso Ferrabosco den eldre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Ferrabosco_(starszy)"
    title: "Alfonso Ferrabosco (starszy)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Ferrabosco"
    title: "Alfonso Ferrabosco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE_(%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B9)"
    title: "Феррабоско, Альфонсо (старший)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/27c6bd71-7824-4497-b905-52f2f2c33cf8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726096"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump