# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-crotch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:35:31.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-crotch"
name: "William Crotch"
slug: "william-crotch"
description: "William Crotch was an English composer and organist. According to the British musicologist Nicholas Temperley, Crotch was \"a child prodigy without parallel in the history of music\", and was certainly the most distinguished English musician in his day."
tagline: "English composer, organist and artist (1775-1847)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Crotch_1820.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1775-07-05"
deathDate: "1847-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.28308266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ويليام كروتش"
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    title: "William Crotch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crotch"
    title: "William Crotch"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crotch"
    title: "William Crotch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crotch"
    title: "William Crotch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crotch"
    title: "William Crotch"
    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%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%81"
    title: "ウィリアム・クロッチ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crotch"
    title: "William Crotch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crotch"
    title: "William Crotch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crotch"
    title: "William Crotch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7%E5%85%8B%E7%BD%97%E5%A5%87"
    title: "威廉·克罗奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718709"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump