# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-lewin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:54:57.430Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-lewin"
name: "David Lewin"
slug: "david-lewin"
description: "David Benjamin Lewin was an American music theorist, music critic and composer. Called \"the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation\", he did his most influential theoretical work on the development of transformational theory, which involves the application of mathematical group theory to music."
tagline: "American music theorist, music critic and composer (1933–2003)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1933-07-02"
deathDate: "2003-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.809684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ديفيد ليفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد ليفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lewin"
    title: "David Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lewin"
    title: "David Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lewin"
    title: "David Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lewin"
    title: "David Lewin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c3b6a80f-06b4-4645-a089-bddc139c62aa"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3018295"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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