# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seiji-ozawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:51:14.885Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seiji-ozawa"
name: "Seiji Ozawa"
slug: "seiji-ozawa"
description: "Seiji Ozawa  was a Japanese conductor known internationally for his work as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and especially the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), where he served from 1973 for 29 years. After conducting the Vienna New Year's Concert in 2002, he was director of the Vienna State Opera until 2010. In Japan, he founded the Saito Kinen Orchestra in 1984, their festival in 1992, and the Tokyo Opera Nomori in 2005."
tagline: "Japanese orchestra conductor (1935–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seiji_Ozawa_1963.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1935-09-01"
deathDate: "2024-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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ranks:
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  country:  204
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump