# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gallus-dressler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:03:25.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gallus-dressler"
name: "Gallus Dressler"
slug: "gallus-dressler"
description: "Gallus Dressler was a German composer and music theorist who served as Kantor in the church school at Magdeburg. Though a few of his works have remained in the choral repertoire, he is best known for his theoretical writings, especially his Praecepta musicae poeticae, which contains some of the earliest detailed description of the compositional process of the Renaissance motet."
tagline: "German composer"
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: "1533-10-16"
deathDate: "1581"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.67
  momentum:             22.33333333333333
  historical:           6.603744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4546805"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جالوس دريسلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallus_Dressler"
    title: "Gallus Dressler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallus_Dre%C3%9Fler"
    title: "Gallus Dreßler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallus_Dressler"
    title: "Gallus Dressler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallus_Dresslerus"
    title: "Gallus Dresslerus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Дресслер, Галл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2874dff4-fd5b-4f40-b612-f9d8da120013"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324696"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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