# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvius-leopold-weiss
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:22:36.342Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvius-leopold-weiss"
name: "Sylvius Leopold Weiss"
slug: "sylvius-leopold-weiss"
description: "Silvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist. He was born in Silesia to the lutenist Johann Jacob Weiss, who taught the lute to his children. Weiss was a child prodigy and played for Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor c. 1694. He was employed by nobility including Charles III Philip of Palatinate-Neuburg and Alexander Sobieski, travelling with them to various courts and cities in Europe."
tagline: "German composer and lutenist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Silvius_Leopold_Weiss.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1687-10-12"
deathDate: "1750-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.43
  momentum:             0.5715756951596292
  historical:           21.74057466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump