# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melchior-franck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:17:37.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melchior-franck"
name: "Melchior Franck"
slug: "melchior-franck"
description: "Melchior Franck was a German composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a hugely prolific composer of Lutheran church music, especially motets, and assisted in bringing the stylistic innovations of the Venetian School north across the Alps into Germany."
tagline: "German composer (1579-1639)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1579"
deathDate: "1639-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.783505154639176
  historical:           13.14956933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Melchior Franck"
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    title: "Melchior Franck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump