# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yakov-eshpay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:34:03.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yakov-eshpay"
name: "Yakov Eshpay"
slug: "yakov-eshpay"
description: "Yakov Andreyevich Eshpai was a Russian composer and music teacher. He studied under Georgi Conus at the Moscow Conservatory. He was ethnic Mari. He is partly noted for his work concerning the folk music of the Mari people. He was the father of the better-known composer Andrei Eshpai, and the grandfather of the filmmaker Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai."
tagline: "Soviet-Russian composer (1890—1963)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1890-10-18"
deathDate: "1963-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.99
  momentum:             0.9302325581395349
  historical:           5.956337333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Эшпай, Яков Андреевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ياكوڤ اشپاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Эшпай Яков Андреевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakow_Andrejewitsch_Eschpai"
    title: "Jakow Andrejewitsch Eschpai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Eshpai"
    title: "Yakov Eshpai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%88%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9_%C3%96%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%AF%D0%BA"
    title: "Эшпай Öндрей Як"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%88%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Эшпай, Яков Андреевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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