# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-kolb
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:24:43.868Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-kolb"
name: "Barbara Kolb"
slug: "barbara-kolb"
description: "Barbara Kolb was an American composer and educator, the first woman to win the Rome Prize in musical composition. Her music features sound masses of colorful textures, impressionistic sounds and atonal vocabulary, with influences from literary and visual arts. She taught at the Third Street Music School Settlement, Rhode Island College and Eastman School of Music."
tagline: "American composer (1939–2024)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Barbara_Kolb_%281a%29.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-02-10"
deathDate: "2024-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.004536
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2148537/"
    handle:    "nm2148537"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1550560"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8"
    title: "بربارة كولب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8"
    title: "باربرا كولب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kolb"
    title: "Barbara Kolb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kolb"
    title: "Barbara Kolb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kolb"
    title: "Barbara Kolb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kolb"
    title: "Barbara Kolb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kolb"
    title: "Barbara Kolb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kolb"
    title: "Barbara Kolb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7b4c7d5e-2af1-4682-9870-2d5ea6ba225b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q807512"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1979681"
    title: "Barbara Kolb"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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