# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferdinando-provesi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:38:14.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferdinando-provesi"
name: "Ferdinando Provesi"
slug: "ferdinando-provesi"
description: "Ferdinando Angelo Maria Provesi was a native of Parma, Italy. He was regarded as one of the greatest Italian opera composers of the era. Provesi is best known as being an early tutor of Giuseppe Verdi when he was the Maestro di cappella at the St. Bartolomeo cathedral in Busseto Provesi was also director of the municipal music school and local Philharmonic Society. He began teaching Verdi in 1824 when the future composer was 11 years old."
tagline: "Italian composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ferdinando_Provesi%2C_composer%2C_musician_and_Verdi's_teacher.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1770-04-20"
deathDate: "1833-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.469546666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1575902"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Provesi"
    title: "Ferdinando Provesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Provesi"
    title: "Ferdinando Provesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Provesi"
    title: "Ferdinando Provesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Provesi"
    title: "Ferdinando Provesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Provesi"
    title: "Ferdinando Provesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Provesi"
    title: "Ferdinando Provesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Provesi"
    title: "Ferdinando Provesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8fb59154-1398-4e0e-b524-9c33869e2b6b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3068736"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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