# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-hanson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:46:32.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-hanson"
name: "Howard Hanson"
slug: "howard-hanson"
description: "Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he raised its quality and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American classical music. In 1944, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4, and received numerous other awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music in 1946."
tagline: "American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist (1896–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Hanson_(1959_still).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: "1896-10-28"
deathDate: "1981-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump