# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-de-freitas-branco
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:14:58.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-de-freitas-branco"
name: "Luís de Freitas Branco"
slug: "luis-de-freitas-branco"
description: "Luís Maria da Costa de Freitas Branco was a Portuguese composer, musicologist, and professor of music who played a pre-eminent part in the development of Portuguese music in the first half of the 20th century."
tagline: "Portuguese composer, musicologist, and professor of music (1890-1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Luiz_de_Freitas_Branco_-_Ser%C3%B5es_(Mai1911).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Portugal"
  isoCode: "PT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1890-10-12"
deathDate: "1955-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             1.304347826086956
  historical:           15.36328533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208460/"
    handle:    "nm0208460"
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    title: "Luís de Freitas Branco"
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    title: "לואיש דה פרייטש ברנקו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Luís de Freitas Branco"
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    title: "Фрейташ Бранку, Луиш ди"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1058554"
    title: "Luís de Freitas Branco"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump