# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/holger-gilbert-jespersen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:45:59.721Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/holger-gilbert-jespersen"
name: "Holger Gilbert-Jespersen"
slug: "holger-gilbert-jespersen"
description: "Holger Gilbert-Jespersen was a Danish flutist, orchestral musician and academic flute teacher. In 1926, Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto was written for, dedicated to, and first performed by Gilbert-Jespersen in Paris. He was a member of the Royal Danish Orchestra from 1927 to 1956 as well as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music from 1927 to 1962, where he trained generations of flutists."
tagline: "Danish musician (1890–1975)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/Holger_Gilbert-Jespersen%2C_Danish_flute_player.jpg/330px-Holger_Gilbert-Jespersen%2C_Danish_flute_player.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1890-09-22"
deathDate: "1975-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.001692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Holger Gilbert-Jespersen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Gilbert-Jespersen"
    title: "Holger Gilbert-Jespersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Gilbert-Jespersen"
    title: "Holger Gilbert-Jespersen"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80-%D0%95%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Жильбер-Есперсен, Хольгер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Gilbert-Jespersen"
    title: "Holger Gilbert-Jespersen"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump