# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marie-claire-alain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:48:18.343Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marie-claire-alain"
name: "Marie-Claire Alain"
slug: "marie-claire-alain"
description: "Marie-Claire Geneviève Alain-Gommier was a French organist, scholar and teacher best known for her prolific recording career, with 260 recordings, making her the most-recorded classical organist in the world. She taught many of the world's prominent organists. She was a specialist in Bach, making three recordings of his complete organ works, as well as French organ music."
tagline: "French organist and organ teacher (1926–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marie-Claire_Alain_in_Saint-Donat_1982.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1926-08-10"
deathDate: "2013-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.592823309107256
  historical:           20.464476
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1786653/"
    handle:    "nm1786653"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump