# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/volker-david-kirchner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:47:24.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/volker-david-kirchner"
name: "Volker David Kirchner"
slug: "volker-david-kirchner"
description: "Volker David Kirchner was a German composer and violist. After studies of violin and composition at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory, the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, he worked for decades as a violist in the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt. He was simultaneously the violist in the Kehr Trio founded by his violin teacher Günter Kehr, and a composer of incidental music at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden."
tagline: "German musician (1942-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Farah_Diba_with_Kehr_Trio_1965.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1942-06-25"
deathDate: "2020-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.650717703349283
  historical:           8.545861333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.volkerdavidkirchner.de/"
sources:
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    title: "Volker David Kirchner"
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    title: "Volker David Kirchner"
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    title: "Volker David Kirchner"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump