# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willy-hess
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:39:49.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willy-hess"
name: "Willy Hess"
slug: "willy-hess"
description: "Willy Hess was a Swiss musicologist, composer, and famous Beethoven scholar. He achieved fame after compiling and publishing a catalogue of works of Beethoven that were not listed in the \"complete\" edition. He orchestrated the Piano Concerto No. 0, in E-flat from a piano score."
tagline: "Swiss musician (1906–1997)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1906-10-12"
deathDate: "1997-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.08
  momentum:             15
  historical:           13.54074933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ويلي هيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%B3"
    title: "ويلى هس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Hess_(Komponist)"
    title: "Willy Hess (Komponist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Hess_(composer)"
    title: "Willy Hess (composer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Hess"
    title: "Willy Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Hess"
    title: "Willy Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Hess_(compositeur)"
    title: "Willy Hess (compositeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Hess"
    title: "Willy Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%B9_(%E4%BD%9C%E6%9B%B2%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "ヴィリー・ヘス (作曲家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Hess_(componist)"
    title: "Willy Hess (componist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Hess_(muzykolog)"
    title: "Willy Hess (muzykolog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8_(%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80)"
    title: "Хесс, Вилли (композитор)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%88%A9%C2%B7%E8%B5%AB%E6%96%AF"
    title: "威利·赫斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "威利·赫斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b6a67ba1-1d4e-4c66-a82e-d917cabe2761"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116138"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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