# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-muck
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:48:40.415Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-muck"
name: "Karl Muck"
slug: "karl-muck"
description: "Karl Muck was a Hessian-born conductor of classical music. He based his activities principally in Europe and mostly in opera. His American career comprised two stints at the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Muck endured a trial by media in 1917, after Providence Journal editor John R. Rathom falsely accused him of knowingly refusing a request to have the BSO play the Star Spangled Banner following American entry into World War I. Although Muck was a citizen of neutral Switzerland, he was arrested based on Rathom's accusation and incarcerated as an enemy alien at Fort Oglethorpe, a German-American internment camp in Georgia from March 1918 until August 1919. Karl Muck and his wife were then deported from the United States. His later career included notable engagements in Hamburg and at the Bayreuth Festival."
tagline: "German-born Swiss conductor of classical music (1859–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Muck_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1859-10-22"
deathDate: "1940-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.59
  momentum:             4.805665032522669
  historical:           15.76886533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Muck"
    title: "Karl Muck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Muck"
    title: "Karl Muck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Muck"
    title: "Karl Muck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Muck"
    title: "Karl Muck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Muck"
    title: "Karl Muck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF"
    title: "カール・ムック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B9%B4%EB%A5%BC_%EB%AC%B4%ED%81%AC"
    title: "카를 무크"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karl Muck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karl Muck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Muck"
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    title: "Karl Muck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%BA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump