# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morten-lauridsen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:46:17.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morten-lauridsen"
name: "Morten Lauridsen"
slug: "morten-lauridsen"
description: "Morten Johannes Lauridsen III is an American composer and teacher. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001, and is professor emeritus of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he taught for fifty-two years until his retirement in 2019."
tagline: "American composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lauridsenislandsm.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1943-02-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           13.901448
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1572968"
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    url:       "http://mortenlauridsen.net"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump