# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodore-thomas
# Generated: 2026-09-01T08:39:01.170Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theodore-thomas"
name: "Theodore Thomas"
slug: "theodore-thomas"
description: "Theodore Thomas was a German-American violinist, conductor, and orchestrator. He is considered the first renowned American orchestral conductor and was the founder and first music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1891–1905)."
tagline: "American violinist and conductor (1835-1905)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Theodore_Thomas_by_Benjamin_Falk_(Newberry_Library%2C_Milward_Adams_Coll)_crop2.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: "1835-10-11"
deathDate: "1905-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             18.61386138613861
  historical:           18.15273733333334
  currentAttention:     47.85478547854785
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Theodore Thomas (conductor)"
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    title: "Theodore Thomas"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "თეოდორე თომასი"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump