# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-johnston-q816527
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:39:58.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-johnston-q816527"
name: "Ben Johnston"
slug: "ben-johnston-q816527"
description: "Benjamin Burwell Johnston Jr. was an American contemporary music composer, known for his use of just intonation. He was called \"one of the foremost composers of microtonal music\" by Philip Bush and \"one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer\" by John Rockwell."
tagline: "American composer (1926–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1926-03-15"
deathDate: "2019-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49
  momentum:             13.51648351648352
  historical:           11.16508533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/NewDissonance"
    handle:    "NewDissonance"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8677451/"
    handle:    "nm8677451"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بين جونستون (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnston"
    title: "Ben Johnston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnston_(composer)"
    title: "Ben Johnston (composer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnston"
    title: "Ben Johnston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بن جانستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnston_(compositeur)"
    title: "Ben Johnston (compositeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnston"
    title: "Ben Johnston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ベン・ジョンストン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80)"
    title: "Бен Джонстон (композитор)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump