# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-cohn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:39.261Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-cohn"
name: "James Cohn"
slug: "james-cohn"
description: "James Cohn was a Newark, New Jersey-born American composer. After taking violin and piano lessons in his native town, he studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, and majored in composition at Juilliard, graduating in 1950."
tagline: "American composer (1928–2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1928-02-12"
deathDate: "2021-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.3
  momentum:             4.087591240875913
  historical:           7.006948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2227746"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "جيمس كون (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيمس كون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cohn"
    title: "James Cohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cohn"
    title: "James Cohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cohn"
    title: "James Cohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cohn"
    title: "James Cohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3bd3aee6-3274-46c2-abd5-e92a70a3bfb0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2795898"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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