# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harry-partch
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:10:16.579Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harry-partch"
name: "Harry Partch"
slug: "harry-partch"
description: "Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales, alongside Lou Harrison. He built his own instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described the method behind his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947)."
tagline: "American composer, music theorist, creator of musical instruments"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harry_Partch_portrait_1952.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1901-06-24"
deathDate: "1974-09-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663945/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump