# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicolas-slonimsky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:59:24.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicolas-slonimsky"
name: "Nicolas Slonimsky"
slug: "nicolas-slonimsky"
description: "Nicolas Slonimsky, born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy, was a Russian-American musicologist, conductor, pianist, lexicographer, and composer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective, and edited Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians."
tagline: "Russian composer (1894-1995)"
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birthDate: "1894-04-15"
deathDate: "1995-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump