# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ergican-saydam
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:02:48.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ergican-saydam"
name: "Ergican Saydam"
slug: "ergican-saydam"
description: "Ergican Saydam was a Turkish pianist and piano pedagogue. He was an advocate of Turkish composers such as Cemal Reşit Rey, Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Cengiz Tanç and İlhan Usmanbaş whose music he premiered and recorded. His repertory centers around German romantic literature, particularly the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann."
tagline: "Turkish pianist (1929–2009)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1929-03-28"
deathDate: "2009-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.05
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.467854666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergican_Saydam"
    title: "Ergican Saydam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "ارجيكان سايدام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergican_Saydam"
    title: "Ergican Saydam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergican_Saydam"
    title: "Ergican Saydam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergican_Saydam"
    title: "Ergican Saydam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Сайдам, Эргиджан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1348160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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