# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willi-apel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:03:55.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willi-apel"
name: "Willi Apel"
slug: "willi-apel"
description: "Willi Apel was a German-American musicologist and noted author of a number of books devoted to music. Among his most important publications are the 1944 edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music and French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century."
tagline: "German-American musicologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Apel_Notation.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1893-10-10"
deathDate: "1988-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.21276595744681
  historical:           13.808532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Willi Apel"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A2%D9%BE%D9%84"
    title: "ویلی آپل"
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    title: "Willi Apel"
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    title: "Willi Apel"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Apel"
    title: "Willi Apel"
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    title: "Willi Apel"
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    title: "Willi Apel"
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    title: "Willi Apel"
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    title: "Willi Apel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump