# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/beat-furrer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:14:56.779Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/beat-furrer"
name: "Beat Furrer"
slug: "beat-furrer"
description: "Beat Furrer is a Swiss-born Austrian composer and conductor. He has served as professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 1991. He was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2018."
tagline: "Austrian composer and conductor"
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: "1954-12-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.15
  momentum:             1.5
  historical:           11.828224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2228418/"
    handle:    "nm2228418"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3rwXUAL1mCPOxbKO4Jcxhq"
    handle:    "3rwXUAL1mCPOxbKO4Jcxhq"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.beatfurrer.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "بايت فورير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Furrer"
    title: "Beat Furrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Furrer"
    title: "Beat Furrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Furrer"
    title: "Beat Furrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Furrer"
    title: "Beat Furrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Furrer"
    title: "Beat Furrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Furrer"
    title: "Beat Furrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Furrer"
    title: "Beat Furrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ベアート・フラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%83%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%82"
    title: "Фуррер, Беат"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%A4%D1%83%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Беат Фуррер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B4%9D%E4%BA%9A%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E7%A6%8F%E7%91%9E"
    title: "贝亚特·福瑞"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3d4c9a99-24d7-4a73-8993-33cb83280bad"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q568534"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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