# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/friedrich-wilhelm-rust
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:59:57.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/friedrich-wilhelm-rust"
name: "Friedrich Wilhelm Rust"
slug: "friedrich-wilhelm-rust"
description: "Friedrich Wilhelm Rust was a German violinist, pianist and composer. He hailed from a renowned musical family in Germany. He was the father of the pianist and organist Wilhelm Karl Rust and the grandfather of Thomaskantor, composer and Bach scholar Wilhelm Rust."
tagline: "German violinist and composer (1739-1796)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Rust.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1739-07-06"
deathDate: "1796-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.61
  momentum:             0.05076142131979695
  historical:           9.407128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فريدريتش ويلهيلم روست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Rust"
    title: "Friedrich Wilhelm Rust"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Rust"
    title: "Friedrich Wilhelm Rust"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Rust"
    title: "Friedrich Wilhelm Rust"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Rust"
    title: "Friedrich Rust"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Rust"
    title: "Friedrich Wilhelm Rust"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Rust_(1739-1796)"
    title: "Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739-1796)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Rust"
    title: "Friedrich Wilhelm Rust"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Rust"
    title: "Friedrich Wilhelm Rust"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump