# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janis-cimze
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:27:12.061Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janis-cimze"
name: "Jānis Cimze"
slug: "janis-cimze"
description: "Jānis Cimze was a Latvian pedagogue, collector and harmoniser of folk songs, organist, founder of Latvian choral music and initiator of professional Latvian music. He is buried at the Lugaži Cemetery."
tagline: "Latvian musician (1814–1881)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C4%81nis_Cimze_3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1814-06-21"
deathDate: "1881-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.33898533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jānis Cimze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump