# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-herold
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:39:20.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-herold"
name: "Ferdinand Hérold"
slug: "ferdinand-herold"
description: "Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, better known as Ferdinand Hérold, was a French composer. He was celebrated in his lifetime for his operas, of which he composed more than twenty, but he also wrote ballet music, works for piano and choral pieces. He is best known today for the ballet La Fille mal gardée and the overture to the opera Zampa."
tagline: "French composer (1791–1833)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ferdinand_Herold_by_Maurin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1791-01-28"
deathDate: "1833-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.76371733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2112173/"
    handle:    "nm2112173"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فيرديناند هيرولد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_H%C3%A9rold"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ferdinand Hérold"
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    title: "Ferdinand Hérold"
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    title: "Ferdinand Hérold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_H%C3%A9rold_(compositeur)"
    title: "Ferdinand Hérold (compositeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_H%C3%A9rold"
    title: "Ferdinand Hérold"
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    title: "Ferdinand Hérold"
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    title: "Ferdinand Hérold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ferdinand Hérold (musiker)"
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    title: "Фердінан Герольд (композитор)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B4%B9%E8%BF%AA%E5%8D%97%C2%B7%E5%9F%83%E7%BD%97%E5%B0%94%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "费迪南·埃罗尔德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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