# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-ratz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:35:39.289Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erwin-ratz"
name: "Erwin Ratz"
slug: "erwin-ratz"
description: "Erwin Ratz was an Austrian musicologist and music theorist. He is known especially for his work as president of the Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft and for his book Einführung in die musikalische Formenlehre. During Nazi rule, he saved the lives of several Austrian Jews by sheltering them in his apartment for a number of years."
tagline: "Austrian musicologist (1898-1973)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1898-12-22"
deathDate: "1973-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.03
  momentum:             5.217391304347827
  historical:           7.004392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/033f9734-737b-4d9b-a026-bd2cf6243d79"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "اروين راتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Ratz"
    title: "Erwin Ratz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Ratz"
    title: "Erwin Ratz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Ratz"
    title: "Erwin Ratz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Ratz"
    title: "Erwin Ratz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Ratz"
    title: "Erwin Ratz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%86%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Рац, Эрвин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85241"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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