# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-battista-granata
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:27:15.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovanni-battista-granata"
name: "Giovanni Battista Granata"
slug: "giovanni-battista-granata"
description: "Giovanni Battista Granata was an Italian Baroque guitar player and composer. He is generally known as the most prolific guitarist of the 17th century, publishing seven books during his lifetime. Along with many pieces in the standard dance genre of that time, Granata also composed many instrumental toccatas, preludes, and chaconnes. Granata was a barber-surgeon by profession."
tagline: "Italian Baroque guitarist and composer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1620"
deathDate: "1687"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.79
  momentum:             6.26482213438735
  historical:           6.804032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "جيوفانى باتيستا جراناتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Granata"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Granata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Granata"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Granata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Granata"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Granata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Granata"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Granata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Granata"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Granata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/61c8dc66-cca4-4766-9a0d-83de1d326b14"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5563731"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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