# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rainer-kussmaul
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:46:22.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rainer-kussmaul"
name: "Rainer Kussmaul"
slug: "rainer-kussmaul"
description: "Rainer Kussmaul was a German Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor. Kussmaul was born in Mannheim and studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. He was professor in Freiburg, first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic and led the Berliner Barocksolisten. He died in Freiburg at age 70."
tagline: "German violinist, conductor, concertmaster and university teacher (1946-2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-06-03"
deathDate: "2017-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41
  momentum:             0.245398773006135
  historical:           6.812024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1116785"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Kussmaul"
    title: "Rainer Kussmaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Kussmaul"
    title: "Rainer Kussmaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Kussmaul"
    title: "Rainer Kussmaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Kussmaul"
    title: "Rainer Kussmaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Kussmaul"
    title: "Rainer Kussmaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Куссмауль, Райнер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3b09fe7d-6d7e-4ead-b126-7be073791d82"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2128233"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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