# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lothar-koch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:53:18.594Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lothar-koch"
name: "Lothar Koch"
slug: "lothar-koch"
description: "Lothar Koch was a German oboist. He was one of the two principal oboists in the Berlin Philharmonic during the Herbert von Karajan era. He was also an active soloist and was regarded as one of the greatest oboe players of his era. One critic described him as the greatest musician of the last 150 years."
tagline: "German oboist (1935–2003)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-07-01"
deathDate: "2003-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.07833066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/882800"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AE"
    title: "لوتار كوخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B4"
    title: "لوثار كوش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Koch_(Oboist)"
    title: "Lothar Koch (Oboist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Koch_(musician)"
    title: "Lothar Koch (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Koch"
    title: "Lothar Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Koch"
    title: "Lothar Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%83%9B"
    title: "ローター・コッホ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Koch"
    title: "Lothar Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%85%2C_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Кох, Лотар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Koch_(musigan)"
    title: "Lothar Koch (musigan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/65a44f13-d63e-4516-a094-f3a5307e877f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70312"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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