# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-gieseking
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:59:52.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-gieseking"
name: "Walter Gieseking"
slug: "walter-gieseking"
description: "Walter Wilhelm Gieseking was a French-born German pianist and composer. Gieseking was renowned for his subtle touch, pedaling, and dynamic control—particularly in the music of Debussy and Ravel; he made complete recordings of all their published works which were extant during his life. He also recorded most of Mozart's solo piano works."
tagline: "German pianist (1895–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter-Gieseking.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: "1895-11-05"
deathDate: "1956-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.98
  momentum:             0.5016256386437528
  historical:           18.881396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3223277"
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    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5hnUbiLAjGNZ9JsiWzOBRC"
    handle:    "5hnUbiLAjGNZ9JsiWzOBRC"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "Walter Gieseking"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump