# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valter-despalj
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:37:13.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valter-despalj"
name: "Valter Dešpalj"
slug: "valter-despalj"
description: "Valter Dešpalj was a Croatian cellist and a professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music."
tagline: "Croatian cellist (1947–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Valter_Despalj.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-11-05"
deathDate: "2023-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.00432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC"
    title: "فالتر ديشبالج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valter_De%C5%A1palj"
    title: "Valter Dešpalj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valter_De%C5%A1palj"
    title: "Valter Dešpalj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valter_De%C5%A1palj"
    title: "Valter Dešpalj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valter_De%C5%A1palj"
    title: "Valter Dešpalj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valter_De%C5%A1palj"
    title: "Valter Dešpalj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Дешпаль, Вальтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valter_De%C5%A1palj"
    title: "Valter Dešpalj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valter_Deshpali"
    title: "Valter Deshpali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/090225b3-6549-4359-b3dd-f1e5e3d689bb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q442306"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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