# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hormoz-farhat
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:27:19.082Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hormoz-farhat"
name: "Hormoz Farhat"
slug: "hormoz-farhat"
description: "Hormoz Farhat was an Iranian-American composer and ethnomusicologist who spent much of his career in Dublin, Ireland. An emeritus professor of music, he was a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Described by the Irish Times as a \"gifted and distinctive composer of contemporary classical music,\" his compositions include orchestral, concertante, piano and choral music, as well string quartets and chamber works. He also wrote numerous film scores, including that of Dariush Mehrjui's 1969 film The Cow. However, his musicological research dominates his legacy; his writings on the music of Iran—a country which he insisted be called 'Persia'—were pivotal in ethnomusicology, particularly his acclaimed 1990 study The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music."
tagline: "Iranian musician (1929-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hormoz_farhat.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1929-08-08"
deathDate: "2021-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.92
  momentum:             6.805555555555556
  historical:           5.084090666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%AA"
    title: "هرمز فرهت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA"
    title: "هورموز فارات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormoz_Farhat"
    title: "Hormoz Farhat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hormoz_Farhat"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormoz_Farhat"
    title: "Hormoz Farhat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%AA"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5903851"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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