# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-steinberg
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:22:16.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-steinberg"
name: "Michael Steinberg"
slug: "michael-steinberg"
description: "Carl Michael Alfred Steinberg was an American music critic and author who specialized in classical music. He was best known, according to San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman, for \"the illuminating, witty and often deeply personal notes he wrote for the San Francisco Symphony's program booklets, beginning in 1979.\" He contributed several entries to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, wrote articles for music journals and magazine, notes for CDs, and published a number of books on music, both collected published annotations and new writings."
tagline: "American music critic, musicologist, and writer (1928-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Michael_Steinberg_headshot.png"
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: "1928-10-04"
deathDate: "2009-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.5
  historical:           8.748597333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump