# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/berthold-tours
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:29:08.490Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/berthold-tours"
name: "Berthold Tours"
slug: "berthold-tours"
description: "Berthold Tours was a Dutch-born English violinist, composer and music editor. His first music teacher was his father, Barthelemy Tours (1797-1864), who was organist of the Groote or St Laurens Kerk in Rotterdam for thirty years, a conductor, and a violinist of European wide reputation, while he studied composition with Johannes Verhulst. Later, he studied composition with François-Joseph Fétis at the conservatory in Brussels and then continued his studies in Leipzig."
tagline: "Dutch composer (1838-1897)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Berthold_Tours.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1838-12-17"
deathDate: "1897-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.802052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2748022"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "بيرثولد تورس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Tours"
    title: "Berthold Tours"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Tours"
    title: "Berthold Tours"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Tours"
    title: "Berthold Tours"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Tours"
    title: "Berthold Tours"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4"
    title: "Турс, Бертольд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eab1964b-0cce-40a1-b3ae-0696d95ec6ab"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2793621"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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