# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andreas-werckmeister
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:59:21.432Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andreas-werckmeister"
name: "Andreas Werckmeister"
slug: "andreas-werckmeister"
description: "Andreas Werckmeister was a German organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era. He was responsible for a temperament that resulted in all tonalities sounding acceptable on the keyboard. This important step toward equal temperament was highly influential to the harmonic basis underlying much of subsequent Western music."
tagline: "German organist, music theorist, and composer"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1645-11-30"
deathDate: "1706-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.408026755852843
  historical:           15.77952133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump