# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-wenzinger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:10:15.635Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/august-wenzinger"
name: "August Wenzinger"
slug: "august-wenzinger"
description: "August Wenzinger was a prominent cellist, viol player, conductor, teacher, and music scholar from Basel, Switzerland. He was a pioneer of historically informed performance, both as a master of the viola da gamba and as a conductor of Baroque orchestral music and operas."
tagline: "Swiss viola da gamba performer and conductor (1905–1996)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1905-11-14"
deathDate: "1996-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.04
  momentum:             9.75
  historical:           11.607704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1047158/"
    handle:    "nm1047158"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "اجسطس وينزنجر"
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    title: "August Wenzinger"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wenzinger"
    title: "August Wenzinger"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wenzinger"
    title: "August Wenzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wenzinger"
    title: "August Wenzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wenzinger"
    title: "August Wenzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wenzinger"
    title: "August Wenzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "آگوست ونتسینگر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wenzinger"
    title: "August Wenzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC"
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    title: "August Wenzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Венцингер, Август"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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