# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hieronymus-praetorius
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:47:43.328Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hieronymus-praetorius"
name: "Hieronymus Praetorius"
slug: "hieronymus-praetorius"
description: "Hieronymus Praetorius the Elder was a Northern German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque whose polychoral motets in 8 to 20 voices are intricate and vividly expressive. Some of his organ music survives in the Visby Orgel-Tabulatur, which dates from 1611."
tagline: "German composer (1560-1629)"
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: "1560-08-10"
deathDate: "1629-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.49
  momentum:             7.397260273972602
  historical:           9.878798666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "هيرونيموس پرايتوريوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Praetorius"
    title: "Hieronymus Praetorius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Praetorius_(Organist)"
    title: "Hieronymus Praetorius (Organist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Praetorius"
    title: "Hieronymus Praetorius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronimo_(la_1-a)_Praetorius"
    title: "Hieronimo (la 1-a) Praetorius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Praetorius"
    title: "Hieronymus Praetorius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Pr%C3%A6torius"
    title: "Hieronymus Prætorius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ヒエロニムス・プレトリウス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Praetorius"
    title: "Hieronymus Praetorius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%83%D1%81%2C_%D0%98%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Преториус, Иероним"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/44d1ecbf-7327-4488-b9d4-41281eca73d4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q565543"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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