# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richie-beirach
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:33:40.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richie-beirach"
name: "Richie Beirach"
slug: "richie-beirach"
description: "Richard Alan Beirach was an American jazz pianist and composer. He made hundreds of recordings, in the 1970s as an early artist of ECM playing albums including Eon, Leaving, and Hubris, in a duo with saxophone player David Liebman including Forgotten Fantasies, and in many other formations. He taught jazz piano at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 2001 to 2014."
tagline: "American jazz pianist and composer (1947–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richie_Beirach.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: "1947-05-23"
deathDate: "2026-01-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.34
  momentum:             1.112943116240725
  historical:           11.91519466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2932545/"
    handle:    "nm2932545"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "3AYoHrPhmpKwXL4beH0wCn"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://richiebeirach.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ريكى بيراتش"
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    title: "Richie Beirach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Beirach"
    title: "Richie Beirach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Beirach"
    title: "Richie Beirach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Beirach"
    title: "Richard Beirach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Beirach"
    title: "Richie Beirach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Beirach"
    title: "Richie Beirach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Beirach"
    title: "Richie Beirach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Beirach"
    title: "Richie Beirach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Beirach"
    title: "Richie Beirach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richie_Beirach"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Richie Beirach"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump