# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-horovitz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:42:10.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-horovitz"
name: "Joseph Horovitz"
slug: "joseph-horovitz"
description: "Joseph Horovitz was an Austrian-born British composer and conductor best known for his 1970 pop cantata Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo, which achieved widespread popularity in schools. Horovitz also composed music for television, including the theme music for the Thames Television series Rumpole of the Bailey, and was a prolific composer of ballet, orchestral, brass band, wind band and chamber music. He considered his fifth string quartet (1969) to be his best work."
tagline: "British composer (1926–2022)"
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: "1926-05-26"
deathDate: "2022-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.3
  momentum:             10
  historical:           11.36704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395264/"
    handle:    "nm0395264"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump