# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-knowles-paine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:08:03.777Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-knowles-paine"
name: "John Knowles Paine"
slug: "john-knowles-paine"
description: "John Knowles Paine was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Paine was one of those responsible for the first significant body of concert music by composers from the United States. The Boston Six's other five members were Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Edward MacDowell, George Chadwick, and Horatio Parker."
tagline: "American composer (1839–1906)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnKPaine.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1839-01-09"
deathDate: "1906-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.326530612244898
  historical:           14.223004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump