# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfreds-kalnins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:25:42.574Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfreds-kalnins"
name: "Alfrēds Kalniņš"
slug: "alfreds-kalnins"
description: "Alfrēds Bruno Jānis Kalniņš was a Latvian composer, organist, pedagogue, music critic and conductor; the founder of national Latvian opera. Kalniņš is primarily remembered for his national opera Baņuta (1920)."
tagline: "Latvian musician (1879-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kalnins_alfreds_1879-1951.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1879-08-23"
deathDate: "1951-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.513513513513514
  historical:           14.94100133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Альфред Калниньш"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump