# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-slenczynska
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:52:47.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-slenczynska"
name: "Ruth Slenczynska"
slug: "ruth-slenczynska"
description: "Ruth Slenczynska was an American classical pianist and the last living piano student of Sergei Rachmaninoff. She was a child prodigy, pushed by her father, debuting with a full orchestra at age seven. She abandoned a career as a concert pianist at age 15, married at age 19 and began studies. She returned to performing in 1951 after a break of more than 10 years, and began to teach piano, from 1964 to 1987 as artist-in-residence at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Her final album was released in 2022."
tagline: "American pianist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Slenczynska_circa_1957_(cropped_wide).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1925-01-15"
deathDate: "2026-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           61.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.97761866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 2180
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Z5dtyrb9Z0LgAkwjqMyY1"
    handle:    "Ruth Slenczynska"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIrfKpFv_dSU2AdeZSqqkjQ"
    handle:    "Ruth Slenczynska - Topic"
    followers: 2180
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Ruth Slenczynska"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Slenczynska"
    title: "Ruth Slenczynska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Slenczynska"
    title: "Ruth Slenczynska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Slenczynska"
    title: "Ruth Slenczynska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Slenczynska"
    title: "Ruth Slenczynska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%A6'%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%94"
    title: "רות סלנצ'ינסקה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Slenczynska"
    title: "Ruth Slenczynska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ルース・スレンチェンスカ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "루스 슬렌친스카"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Slenczynska"
    title: "Ruth Slenczynska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%82"
    title: "Сленчиньска, Рут"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Slenczynska"
    title: "Ruth Slenczynska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9C%B2%E7%B5%B2%C2%B7%E5%8F%B2%E8%98%AD%E5%80%A9%E6%96%AF%E5%8D%A1"
    title: "露絲·史蘭倩斯卡"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2e980562-7dca-4662-8040-2e68a882f29a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4423324"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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