# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-blom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:01:16.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-blom"
name: "Eric Blom"
slug: "eric-blom"
description: "Eric Walter Blom was a Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, music critic and writer. He is best known as the editor of the 5th edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1954)."
tagline: "Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, musicologist, music critic, music biographer and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eric_Blom.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1888-08-20"
deathDate: "1959-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.81
  momentum:             9.6
  historical:           7.872354666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Blom"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "اريك بلوم (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Blom"
    title: "Eric Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Blom"
    title: "Eric Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Blom"
    title: "Eric Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Blom"
    title: "Eric Blom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Блом, Эрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC"
    title: "Ерік Блом"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Blom"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4088306"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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