# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cornelius-cardew
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:11:59.313Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cornelius-cardew"
name: "Cornelius Cardew"
slug: "cornelius-cardew"
description: "Cornelius Cardew was an English experimental music composer, and founder of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected experimental music, explaining why he had \"discontinued composing in an avant-garde idiom\" in his own programme notes to his Piano Album 1973."
tagline: "English composer and improviser"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cornelius_Cardew_at_Grunwick_march.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1936-05-07"
deathDate: "1981-12-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           12.52243066666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump