# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-besler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:27:26.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-besler"
name: "Samuel Besler"
slug: "samuel-besler"
description: "Samuel Besler was a German composer. He was cantor at St. Bernhardinus, Breslau, in 1602, then rector of the Gymnasium from 1605. As with Jakob Meiland in the generation before him, and Melchior Vulpius in his own generation, his St. Matthew Passion follows the model of Johann Walter's Lutheran historia, but with more elaborate choral numbers."
tagline: "Silesian teacher and composer (1574-1625)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tablica_upami%C4%99tniaj%C4%85ca_Samuela_Beslera._Ko%C5%9Bci%C3%B3%C5%82_%C5%9Bw._Bernardyna%2C_Wroc%C5%82aw.jpg/330px-Tablica_upami%C4%99tniaj%C4%85ca_Samuela_Beslera._Ko%C5%9Bci%C3%B3%C5%82_%C5%9Bw._Bernardyna%2C_Wroc%C5%82aw.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1574-12-15"
deathDate: "1625-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.83
  momentum:             7.058823529411765
  historical:           5.468754666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Besler"
    title: "Samuel Besler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سامويل بيسلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Besler"
    title: "Samuel Besler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Besler"
    title: "Samuel Besler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Besler"
    title: "Samuel Besler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Besler"
    title: "Samuel Besler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9333367"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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