# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugo-riesenfeld
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:53:46.221Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugo-riesenfeld"
name: "Hugo Riesenfeld"
slug: "hugo-riesenfeld"
description: "Hugo Riesenfeld was an Austrian-American composer. As a film director, he began to write his own orchestral compositions for silent films in 1917, and co-created modern production techniques where film scoring serves an integral part of the action. Riesenfeld composed about 100 film scores in his career."
tagline: "Austrian-American composer (1879–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/H._Reisenfeld_LCCN2014715959.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1879-01-26"
deathDate: "1939-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.70998925886144
  historical:           11.41008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0006252"
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    title: "Hugo Riesenfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Riesenfeld"
    title: "Hugo Riesenfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump