# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-gossett
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:32:28.752Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-gossett"
name: "Philip Gossett"
slug: "philip-gossett"
description: "Philip Gossett was an American musicologist and historian, and Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago. His lifelong interest in 19th-century Italian opera began with listening to Metropolitan Opera broadcasts in his youth. Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera, a major work on the subject, won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society as best book on music of 2006."
tagline: "American musicologist (1941–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Gossett_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-09-27"
deathDate: "2017-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           11.14186533333333
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1297296/"
    handle:    "nm1297296"
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    title: "Philip Gossett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Gossett"
    title: "Philip Gossett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Gossett"
    title: "Philip Gossett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philip Gossett"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump