# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-brade
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:57:34.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-brade"
name: "William Brade"
slug: "william-brade"
description: "William Brade was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first Englishman to write a canzona, an Italian form, and probably the first to write a piece for solo violin."
tagline: "English composer (1560–1630)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1560"
deathDate: "1630-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.409072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm74120442/"
    handle:    "nm74120442"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/72CceCzVMQDJriXo0JCn0h"
    handle:    "72CceCzVMQDJriXo0JCn0h"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/957649"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ويليام براد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brade"
    title: "William Brade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brade"
    title: "William Brade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brade"
    title: "William Brade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brade"
    title: "William Brade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brade"
    title: "William Brade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brade"
    title: "William Brade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brade"
    title: "William Brade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89"
    title: "ウィリアム・ブレイド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brade"
    title: "William Brade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brade"
    title: "William Brade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brade"
    title: "William Brade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/52451ea4-93c0-4ce8-ba5a-3b8a31054b8f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1706870"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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