# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wayne-peterson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:11:03.676Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wayne-peterson"
name: "Wayne Peterson"
slug: "wayne-peterson"
description: "Wayne Peterson was an American composer, pianist, and educator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark in 1992, when its board overturned the jury's unanimous selection of Concerto Fantastique by Ralph Shapey."
tagline: "American composer (1927-2021)"
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: "1927-09-03"
deathDate: "2021-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.9
  momentum:             1.941747572815534
  historical:           7.004428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "واين بيترسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "واين بيترسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Peterson"
    title: "Wayne Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Peterson"
    title: "Wayne Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Peterson"
    title: "Wayne Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Peterson"
    title: "Wayne Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ebad000c-2943-4a25-b694-4df319d0d558"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7976529"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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