# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-jessel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:39:12.904Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-jessel"
name: "Leon Jessel"
slug: "leon-jessel"
description: "Leon Jessel, or Léon Jessel, was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the popular jaunty march The Parade of the Tin Soldiers, also known as The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. Jessel was a prolific composer who wrote hundreds of light orchestral pieces, piano pieces, songs, waltzes, mazurkas, marches, choruses, and other salon music. He achieved considerable acclaim with a number of his operettas — in particular Schwarzwaldmädel, which remains popular to this day."
tagline: "German composer (1871-1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leon_Jessel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1871-01-22"
deathDate: "1942-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.15914533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422184/"
    handle:    "nm0422184"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Jessel"
    title: "Leon Jessel"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Jessel"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Jessel"
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    title: "レオン・イェッセル"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump