# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-schuchter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:28:00.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-schuchter"
name: "Wilhelm Schüchter"
slug: "wilhelm-schuchter"
description: "Wilhelm Schüchter was a German conductor. Between 1959 and 1962, he was the music director of the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and is credited for raising its standards to an international level. He was Generalmusikdirektor in Dortmund from 1962 until his death. He opened the new opera house in 1966 with Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, and conducted the world premiere of the opera Eli by Walter Steffens after the drama of Nelly Sachs in 1967. He left a legacy of opera recordings, especially of excerpts sung in German."
tagline: "German conductor (1911-1974)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Wilhelm_Sch%C3%BCchter_%281%29.jpg"
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: "1911-12-15"
deathDate: "1974-05-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.92
  momentum:             10.44742268041237
  historical:           8.542585333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wilhelm Schüchter"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Sch%C3%BCchter"
    title: "Wilhelm Schüchter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Sch%C3%BCchter"
    title: "Wilhelm Schüchter"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%92%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шюхтер, Вильгельм"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump