# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-besard
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:49:01.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-besard"
name: "Jean-Baptiste Besard"
slug: "jean-baptiste-besard"
description: "Jean-Baptiste Besard was a bisontin lutenist, composer and anthologist who lived and worked in the Holy Roman Empire. He is known for publishing two anthologies which collected a diverse range of musical works of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods and included instructions on playing the lute."
tagline: "French composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JeanBaptisteBesard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1567"
deathDate: "1625"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.005616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1596054"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "چين باپتيسانت بيسارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Besard"
    title: "Jean-Baptiste Besard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Besard"
    title: "Jean-Baptiste Besard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Besard"
    title: "Jean-Baptiste Besard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Besard"
    title: "Jean-Baptiste Besard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Besard"
    title: "Jean-Baptiste Besard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3969e997-2d7f-4830-b89b-2b5b54d44a74"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1684613"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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