# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emil-mangelsdorff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:31:00.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emil-mangelsdorff"
name: "Emil Mangelsdorff"
slug: "emil-mangelsdorff"
description: "Emil Mangelsdorff was a German jazz musician who played alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet and flute. He was a jazz pioneer under the Nazi regime which led to his imprisonment. After World War II and years as a prisoner of war, he was a founding member of the jazz ensemble of Hessischer Rundfunk in 1958. He played with several groups and was active, also as an educator, until old age."
tagline: "German jazz musician (1925–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Emil-mangelsdorff-2009-ffm-010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1925-04-11"
deathDate: "2022-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.211592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/382105"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Mangelsdorff"
    title: "Emil Mangelsdorff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Mangelsdorff"
    title: "Emil Mangelsdorff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Mangelsdorff"
    title: "Emil Mangelsdorff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Mangelsdorff"
    title: "Emil Mangelsdorff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Mangelsdorff"
    title: "Emil Mangelsdorff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Mangelsdorff"
    title: "Emil Mangelsdorff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/303726d2-e02d-4534-96f4-e08e88678ab5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q880746"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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