# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-finnissy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:57:36.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-finnissy"
name: "Michael Finnissy"
slug: "michael-finnissy"
description: "Michael Peter Finnissy is an English composer, pianist, and pedagogue. An immensely prolific composer, his music is \"notable for its dramatic urgency and expressive immediacy\"."
tagline: "British composer and pianist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1946-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.427576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2tsOm9CPRD4SbZagsqAhj4"
    handle:    "2tsOm9CPRD4SbZagsqAhj4"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michaelfinnissy.info/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/740837"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "مايكل فينيسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finnissy"
    title: "Michael Finnissy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finnissy"
    title: "Michael Finnissy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finnissy"
    title: "Michael Finnissy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finnissy"
    title: "Michael Finnissy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finnissy"
    title: "Michael Finnissy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "マイケル・フィニスィー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finnissy"
    title: "Michael Finnissy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Финнисси, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1596ceb5-0cb6-4b03-8d16-59015bcc6d96"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2813877"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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