# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-j-becker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:34:28.813Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-j-becker"
name: "John J. Becker"
slug: "john-j-becker"
description: "John Joseph Becker was an American composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, a conductor, a writer on music, and a music administrator. In the early 1930s he was especially active as a conductor, giving midwestern premieres of works by his close friend Charles Ives, as well as music by fellow American composers Carl Ruggles and Wallingford Riegger."
tagline: "American composer of contemporary classical music (1886–1961)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/JohnJBecker.jpg"
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: "1886-01-22"
deathDate: "1961-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.39
  momentum:             14.0625
  historical:           10.07278666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6388048/"
    handle:    "nm6388048"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2982233"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "جون جاي بيكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "جون جيه. بيكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Becker"
    title: "John J. Becker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Becker_(komponist)"
    title: "John Becker (komponist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Becker"
    title: "John J. Becker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Becker"
    title: "John J. Becker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%DB%8C._%D8%A8%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "جان جی. بکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Becker"
    title: "John J. Becker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Becker"
    title: "John J. Becker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Беккер, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a05d2dcb-b720-4efe-95ad-663dbd53fcf9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1700564"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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