# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ponti
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:44:23.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ponti"
name: "Michael Ponti"
slug: "michael-ponti"
description: "Michael Ponti was a German-American classical pianist. He was the first to record the complete piano works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. He made more than 80 recordings, around 50 of rarely played concertos from the Romantic period, often the only recording of these works at the time. He played and recorded chamber music with his Ponti-Zimansky-Polasek Trio."
tagline: "German pianist (1937–2022)"
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: "1937-10-29"
deathDate: "2022-10-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.15
  momentum:             16.832750046049
  historical:           10.94881333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690643/"
    handle:    "nm0690643"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4f23POdM8xodkVkxmbTanq"
    handle:    "4f23POdM8xodkVkxmbTanq"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "مايكل بونتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ponti"
    title: "Michael Ponti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ponti"
    title: "Michael Ponti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ponti"
    title: "Michael Ponti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ponti"
    title: "Michael Ponti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ponti"
    title: "Michael Ponti"
    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%9D%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3"
    title: "マイケル・ポンティ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ponti"
    title: "Michael Ponti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ponti"
    title: "Michael Ponti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Понти, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/294b0aad-5931-4dfa-bd3f-bab7bce65e45"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707611"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2399307"
    title: "Michael Pontin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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