# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mccabe-q949396
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:22:10.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-mccabe-q949396"
name: "John McCabe"
slug: "john-mccabe-q949396"
description: "John McCabe was a British composer and pianist. He created works in many different forms, including symphonies, ballets, and solo works for the piano. He served as director of the London College of Music from 1983 to 1990. Guy Rickards praised him as \"one of Britain's finest composers in the past half-century\" and \"a pianist of formidable gifts and wide-ranging sympathies\"."
tagline: "English composer and pianist (1939–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/John_McCabe_%28composer%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-04-21"
deathDate: "2015-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.51
  momentum:             8.142857142857144
  historical:           10.76076533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564463/"
    handle:    "nm0564463"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johnmccabe.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/834074"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "جون مكاب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCabe"
    title: "John McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCabe"
    title: "John McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCabe"
    title: "John McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCabe_(composer)"
    title: "John McCabe (composer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A8"
    title: "جان مک‌کیب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCabe_(compositeur)"
    title: "John McCabe (compositeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91"
    title: "ג'ון מקייב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCabe"
    title: "John McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCabe"
    title: "John McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCabe"
    title: "John McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/96df4f19-232c-4215-9a9c-aeacc2378655"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q949396"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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