# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolai-kapustin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:21:27.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolai-kapustin"
name: "Nikolai Kapustin"
slug: "nikolai-kapustin"
description: "Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin was a Soviet-born Russian composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in the synthesis of jazz idioms and Western classical structures. A virtuoso of the \"Moscow School\" of piano playing, Kapustin composed 161 opus numbers, including 20 piano sonatas, six piano concertos, and sets of preludes and fugues, all of which utilize a sophisticated harmonic and rhythmic language derived from bebop, stride piano, and jazz fusion."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (1937–2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Nikolai_Kapustin.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-11-22"
deathDate: "2020-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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