# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-johnson-lang
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:22:39.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-johnson-lang"
name: "Benjamin Johnson Lang"
slug: "benjamin-johnson-lang"
description: "Benjamin Johnson Lang was an American conductor, pianist, organist, teacher and composer. He introduced a large amount of music to American audiences, including the world premiere of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, which he conducted in Boston in 1875. His daughter Margaret Ruthven Lang was an accomplished composer."
tagline: "American conductor (1837–1909)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/B._J._Lang.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1837-12-28"
deathDate: "1909-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.307692307692307
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Benjamin Johnson Lang"
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    title: "Benjamin Johnson Lang"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump