# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gordon-jacob
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:03:57.228Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gordon-jacob"
name: "Gordon Jacob"
slug: "gordon-jacob"
description: "Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about music. As a composer he was prolific: the list of his works totals more than 700, mostly compositions of his own, but a substantial minority of orchestrations and arrangements of other composers' works. Those music he orchestrated range from William Byrd to Edward Elgar to Noël Coward."
tagline: "English composer (1895–1984)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1895-07-05"
deathDate: "1984-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414202/"
    handle:    "nm0414202"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.gordonjacob.org/"
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Gordon Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Jacob"
    title: "Gordon Jacob"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Jacob"
    title: "Gordon Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Jacob"
    title: "Gordon Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Jacob"
    title: "Gordon Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Jacob"
    title: "Gordon Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump