# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellen-taaffe-zwilich
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:27.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellen-taaffe-zwilich"
name: "Ellen Taaffe Zwilich"
slug: "ellen-taaffe-zwilich"
description: "Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called \"one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers.\" She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University."
tagline: "American composer"
gender: "female"
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: "1939-04-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.92
  momentum:             15
  historical:           13.819584
  currentAttention:     0.76
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6558053/"
    handle:    "nm6558053"
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    handle:    "0stx4BaQkpiTJW7GQZe17I"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.zwilich.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "الين تاف زويليتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Taaffe_Zwilich"
    title: "Ellen Taaffe Zwilich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Taaffe_Zwilich"
    title: "Ellen Taaffe Zwilich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ellen Zwilich"
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    title: "Ellen Taaffe Zwilich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ellen Zwilich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "エレン・ターフィ・ツウィリッヒ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ellen Taaffe Zwilich"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Taaffe_Zwilich"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump