# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomas-de-santa-maria
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:48:58.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomas-de-santa-maria"
name: "Tomás de Santa María"
slug: "tomas-de-santa-maria"
description: "Fr. Tomás de Santa María O.P. was a Spanish music theorist, organist and composer of the Renaissance. He was born in Madrid but the date is highly uncertain; he died in Ribadavia. Little is known about his life except that he joined the Dominican order of friars in 1536, he was employed as an organist in various locales in mid-century, and he published his major work, Arte de tañer fantasía, in Valladolid in 1565."
tagline: "Spanish music theorist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1515"
deathDate: "1570"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.26
  momentum:             1.702127659574468
  historical:           6.139273333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bcf76557-05e6-4681-bd48-767ebfa48f7b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "توماس د سانتا ماريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa"
    title: "Tomás de Santa María"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa"
    title: "Tomás de Santa María"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa"
    title: "Tomás de Santa María"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa"
    title: "Tomás de Santa María"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa"
    title: "Tomás de Santa María"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q729172"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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