# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-joseph-fetis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:52:35.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-joseph-fetis"
name: "François-Joseph Fétis"
slug: "francois-joseph-fetis"
description: "François-Joseph Fétis was a Belgian musicologist, critic, teacher and composer. He was among the most influential music intellectuals in continental Europe. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today."
tagline: "Belgian composer (1784-1871)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francois_joseph_fetis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1784-03-25"
deathDate: "1871-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump