# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arnold-van-wyk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:34:08.737Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arnold-van-wyk"
name: "Arnold van Wyk"
slug: "arnold-van-wyk"
description: "Arnoldus Christiaan Vlok van Wyk was a South African art music composer, one of the first notable generation of such composers along with Hubert du Plessis and Stefans Grové. Despite the strict laws imposed by the Apartheid government during his lifetime, van Wyk's homosexuality was ignored by the authorities throughout his career due to the nationalistic nature of his music."
tagline: "South African composer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1916-04-26"
deathDate: "1983-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.42
  momentum:             16.72727272727273
  historical:           6.604644
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1898487/"
    handle:    "nm1898487"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/08f5f4c9-4ac0-4d44-bbe1-8ccfb56dc97b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_van_Wyk"
    title: "Arnold van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ارنولد ڤان ويك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_van_Wyk"
    title: "Arnold van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_van_Wyk"
    title: "Arnold van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_van_Wyk"
    title: "Arnold van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_van_Wyk"
    title: "Arnold van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_van_Wyk"
    title: "Arnold van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4795338"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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