# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustave-kerker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:20:52.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gustave-kerker"
name: "Gustave Kerker"
slug: "gustave-kerker"
description: "Gustave Adolph Kerker, sometimes given as Gustav or Gustavus Kerker, was a Kingdom of Prussia-born composer and conductor who spent most of his life in the United States. He became a musical director for Broadway theatre productions and wrote the music for a series of operettas and musicals produced on Broadway and in the West End. His most famous musical was The Belle of New York (1897)."
tagline: "German composer and conductor (1857–1923)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gustave_Kerker.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: "1857-02-28"
deathDate: "1923-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.135673333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3555535"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A4_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جوستاڤ كيركير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Adolph_Kerker"
    title: "Gustave Adolph Kerker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Kerker"
    title: "Gustave Kerker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Kerker"
    title: "Gustave Kerker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Kerker"
    title: "Gustave Kerker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f9f2281a-98a7-4d7e-8c6a-e49c6cd86854"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113876"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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