# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-kirchner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:39:21.181Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-kirchner"
name: "Leon Kirchner"
slug: "leon-kirchner"
description: "Leon Kirchner was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he won a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3."
tagline: "American composer (1919-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Leon_Kirchner.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1919-01-24"
deathDate: "2009-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ليون كيرتشنير"
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    title: "Leon Kirchner"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump