# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-ruzicka
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:56:31.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-ruzicka"
name: "Peter Ruzicka"
slug: "peter-ruzicka"
description: "Peter Ruzicka is a German composer and conductor of classical music. He was director of the Hamburg State Opera, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg and the Salzburg Festival. Ruzicka was managing director and Intendant of the Salzburg Easter Festival and is professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. The list of his compositions includes numerous orchestral and chamber music works as well as the opera \"Celan\", about the poet Paul Celan, which was premiered in Dresden in 2001. His opera \"Hölderlin\" had its premiere at the Berlin State Opera in 2008. Ruzicka's third opera \"Benjamin\", about the philosopher Walter Benjamin, was written in 2015/16 for the Hamburg State Opera and premiered in 2018."
tagline: "German composer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-07-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.49
  momentum:             2.205882352941177
  historical:           10.27678266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3042394/"
    handle:    "nm3042394"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.peter-ruzicka.de/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "پيتير روزيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ruzicka"
    title: "Peter Ruzicka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ruzicka"
    title: "Peter Ruzicka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ruzicka"
    title: "Peter Ruzicka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ruzicka"
    title: "Peter Ruzicka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%96%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%A7%D7%94"
    title: "פטר רוזיצקה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ruzicka"
    title: "Peter Ruzicka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ruzicka"
    title: "Peter Ruzicka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ruzicka"
    title: "Peter Ruzicka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Ружичка, Петер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7090d3cf-ec19-4517-84a4-efaf737275f4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457207"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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