# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-westergaard
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:16:59.876Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-westergaard"
name: "Peter Westergaard"
slug: "peter-westergaard"
description: "Peter Talbot Westergaard was an American composer and music theorist. He was Professor Emeritus of music at Princeton University."
tagline: "American composer (1931–2019)"
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: "1931-05-28"
deathDate: "2019-06-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.24
  momentum:             3.287671232876712
  historical:           6.136825333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/209fc396-a848-4163-a2f2-cea7e50eafc3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "پيتير ويستيرجارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Westergaard"
    title: "Peter Westergaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Westergaard"
    title: "Peter Westergaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A8_%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8"
    title: "פיטר וסטרגור"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Westergaard"
    title: "Peter Westergaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%94"
    title: "ปีเตอร์ เวสเตอร์การ์ด"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2079003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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