# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-henry-reed
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:51:13.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-henry-reed"
name: "William Henry Reed"
slug: "william-henry-reed"
description: "William Henry Reed MVO was an English violinist, teacher, composer, conductor and biographer of Edward Elgar. He was leader of the London Symphony Orchestra for 23 years (1912–1935), but is best known for his long personal friendship with Elgar (1910–1934) and his book Elgar As I Knew Him (1936), in which he goes into great detail about the genesis of the Violin Concerto in B minor."
tagline: "British musician (1876-1942)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1876-07-29"
deathDate: "1942-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.98
  momentum:             11.30971725706857
  historical:           7.674802666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "ويليام هنرى ريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Reed"
    title: "William Henry Reed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Reed"
    title: "William Henry Reed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Reed"
    title: "William Henry Reed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Reed"
    title: "William Henry Reed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Reed"
    title: "William Henry Reed"
    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%98%E3%83%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "ウィリアム・ヘンリー・リード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/db3cfdee-e744-419d-bb37-65d32528391a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568693"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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