# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/finn-benestad
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:00:24.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/finn-benestad"
name: "Finn Benestad"
slug: "finn-benestad"
description: "Finn Benestad was a Norwegian musicologist and music critic. He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1965 to 1998, and is probably best known for his long-term research on composer Edvard Grieg."
tagline: "Music Professor (1929–2012)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1929-10-30"
deathDate: "2012-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.268070666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Benestad"
    title: "Finn Benestad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Benestad"
    title: "Finn Benestad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Benestad"
    title: "Finn Benestad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Benestad"
    title: "Finn Benestad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Benestad"
    title: "Finn Benestad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Benestad"
    title: "Finn Benestad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3494818"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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