# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-ferneyhough
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:48.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-ferneyhough"
name: "Brian Ferneyhough"
slug: "brian-ferneyhough"
description: "Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University of California, San Diego; he teaches at Stanford University and is a regular lecturer in the summer courses at Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He has resided in California since 1987."
tagline: "British composer (born 1943)"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-01-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             3.390804597701151
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 224
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump