# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chou-wen-chung
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:58:33.678Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chou-wen-chung"
name: "Chou Wen-chung"
slug: "chou-wen-chung"
description: "Chou Wen-chung was a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. He emigrated in 1946 to the United States and received his music training at the New England Conservatory and Columbia University. Chou is credited by Nicolas Slonimsky as one of the first Chinese composers who attempted to translate authentic East Asian melo-rhythms into the terms of modern Western music."
tagline: "Chinese American composer (1923–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chou_Wen-chung%2C_Chinese_American_composer_of_contemporary._classical_music.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1923-06-29"
deathDate: "2019-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.468531468531469
  historical:           12.95651733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://chouwenchung.org"
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    title: "تشو وين تشونج"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump