# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-werner-zimmermann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:17:18.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-werner-zimmermann"
name: "Heinz Werner Zimmermann"
slug: "heinz-werner-zimmermann"
description: "Heinz Werner Zimmermann was a German composer, focused on contemporary sacred music. He was professor of composition at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule and the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and held several honorary doctorates from the Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, U.S., and from Leipzig University. He is known for church music influenced by jazz, such as motets for choir with plucked bass."
tagline: "German composer (1930–2022)"
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: "1930-08-11"
deathDate: "2022-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.80828
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هاينز فيرنر زيمارمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هاينز فيرنر زيمارمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Werner_Zimmermann"
    title: "Heinz Werner Zimmermann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Werner_Zimmermann"
    title: "Heinz Werner Zimmermann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Werner_Zimmermann"
    title: "Heinz Werner Zimmermann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Werner_Zimmermann"
    title: "Heinz Werner Zimmermann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/92953c96-f227-4935-bcf4-4713ec248b30"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1170199"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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