# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-kaufman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:15:26.992Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-kaufman"
name: "Louis Kaufman"
slug: "louis-kaufman"
description: "Louis Kaufman was an American violinist. He played on the soundtrack of as many as 500 movies and made over 100 musical recordings. He is also credited with reviving the music of Antonio Vivaldi with his recording of The Four Seasons in 1947, which won the Grand Prix du Disque in 1950, was elected to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002, and in 2003 was selected for the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry."
tagline: "American musician (1905–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Musical_Art_Quartet%2C_S._Jacobsen%2C_Bernard(%3F)%2C_Marie_Roemaet-Rosanoff%2C_L._Kaufman_LCCN2014713269.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1905-05-10"
deathDate: "1994-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.68
  momentum:             2.824823578248236
  historical:           7.009036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442209/"
    handle:    "nm0442209"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1485336"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A)"
    title: "لويس كوفمان (موسيقي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Kaufman"
    title: "Louis Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Kaufman"
    title: "Louis Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%95%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ルイス・カウフマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%84%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Кауфман, Луис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7bcf450a-d0a7-4ca1-a883-d3b83852d9ec"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4217658"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2156396"
    title: "Louis Kaufman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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