# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/balint-bakfark
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:22.897Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/balint-bakfark"
name: "Bálint Bakfark"
slug: "balint-bakfark"
description: "Bálint Bakfark was a Hungarian composer of Transylvanian Saxon origin, and lutenist of the Renaissance. He was enormously influential as a lutenist in his time, and renowned as a virtuoso on the instrument."
tagline: "Hungarian musician (ca. 1506-1576)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bacfarc.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1507"
deathDate: "1576-08-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.67951866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بالينت باكفارك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бакфарк Валентин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bálint Bakfark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Վալենտին Բակֆարկ"
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    title: "Bálint Bakfark"
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    title: "Бакфарк, Валентин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bálint Bakfark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Валентин Бакфарк"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump