# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-simandl
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:11:40.001Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-simandl"
name: "Franz Simandl"
slug: "franz-simandl"
description: "Franz Simandl was a double-bassist and pedagogue from Austria-Hungary most remembered for his book New Method for String Bass, known as the \"Simandl book\", which is to this day used as a standard study of double bass technique and hand positions."
tagline: "Classical double-bassist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franti%C5%A1ek_Simandl_(1840-1912).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1840-08-01"
deathDate: "1912-12-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.478726666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 237
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "فرانز سيماندل"
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    title: "Franz Simandl"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Simandl"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Simandl"
    title: "Franz Simandl"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Simandl"
    title: "Franz Simandl"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Simandl"
    title: "Franz Simandl"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Simandl"
    title: "Franz Simandl"
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    title: "フランツ・シマンドル"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump