# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-piston
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:05:13.306Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-piston"
name: "Walter Piston"
slug: "walter-piston"
description: "Walter Hamor Piston, Jr., was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University."
tagline: "American composer (1894–1976)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Walter_Piston.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1894-01-20"
deathDate: "1976-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump