# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-farkas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:41:04.184Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-farkas"
name: "Philip Farkas"
slug: "philip-farkas"
description: "Philip Farkas was the principal French horn player in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for many years, leaving in 1960 to join the music faculty at Indiana University School of Music. His books include The Art of French Horn Playing, The Art of Brass Playing, The Art of Musicianship, and A Photo Study of 40 Virtuoso Horn Players' Embouchures. Nancy Jordan Fako wrote his biography, Philip Farkas and His Horn - A Happy, Worthwhile Life. Later in his life he helped design the Holton-Farkas horn."
tagline: "American horn player (1914-1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Farkas_Trossingen_1980-19800808-RM-162233.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1914-03-05"
deathDate: "1992-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.56
  momentum:             3.983402489626556
  historical:           5.945465333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c395836e-4c8e-45b2-b6c8-c3a3c5b3f9c6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فيليب فاركاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Farkas"
    title: "Philip Farkas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Farkas"
    title: "Philip Farkas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Farkas"
    title: "Philip Farkas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%96%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%BD_%D5%96%D5%AB%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%BA"
    title: "Ֆարկաս Ֆիլիպ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9"
    title: "フィリップ・ファーカス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320681"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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