# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-francis-mcbeth
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:19:29.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-francis-mcbeth"
name: "W. Francis McBeth"
slug: "w-francis-mcbeth"
description: "William Francis McBeth was an American composer, whose wind band works are highly respected. His primary musical influences included Clifton Williams, Bernard Rogers, and Howard Hanson. The popularity of his works in the United States during the last half of the twentieth century led to many invitations and appearances as a guest conductor, where he often conducted the premiere performances of some of his compositions, the majority of which were commissioned. His conducting activities took him to forty-eight states, three Canadian provinces, Japan, and Australia; and for a number of years he was principal conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in the capital of Little Rock. At one time, his \"Double Pyramid Balance System\" was a widely used pedagogical tool in the concert band world."
tagline: "American composer (1933-2012)"
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: "1933-03-09"
deathDate: "2012-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.63
  momentum:             0.2888086642599278
  historical:           7.01026
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5719acf1-c9b8-471d-89b7-2e208ab37c5b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "دبليو. فرانسيس مكبيث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Francis_McBeth"
    title: "W. Francis McBeth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_McBeth"
    title: "William Francis McBeth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Francis_McBeth"
    title: "W. Francis McBeth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Francis_McBeth"
    title: "W. Francis McBeth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%99%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ウィリアム・フランシス・マクベス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Francis_McBeth"
    title: "W. Francis McBeth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705741"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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