# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerd-zacher
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:59:35.282Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerd-zacher"
name: "Gerd Zacher"
slug: "gerd-zacher"
description: "Gerd Zacher was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He specialized in contemporary compositions, many of which feature extended techniques, and are written in graphic or verbal scores. He interpreted the scores of numerous contemporary composers, including John Cage, Juan Allende-Blin, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Hans Otte, Luis de Pablo, and Isang Yun. He is also known as an interpreter of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach."
tagline: "German composer (1929–2014)"
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: "1929-07-06"
deathDate: "2014-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.77
  momentum:             1.785714285714286
  historical:           7.00594
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/567502"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جيرد زاتشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Zacher"
    title: "Gerd Zacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Zacher"
    title: "Gerd Zacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Zacher"
    title: "Gerd Zacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Zacher"
    title: "Gerd Zacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Zacher"
    title: "Gerd Zacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/55bc2bee-2ee0-4b58-8266-1a02181c03d4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75679"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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