HEINRICH

FINCK (d. c. 1519)  , German musical composer, was probably born at Bamberg, but nothing is certainly known either of the place or date of his birth . Between 1492 and 1506 he was a musician in, and later possibly conductor of the court orchestra of successive kings of Poland at Warsaw . He held the post of conductor at Stuttgart from 1510 till about 1519, in which year he probably died . His works, mostly part songs and other vocal compositions, show great musical knowledge, and amongst the early masters of the German school he holds a high position . They are found scattered amongst ancient and modern collections of songs and other musical pieces (see R . Eitner, Bibl. der Musiksammelwerke des 16. and i7 . Jahrh., Berlin, 1877) . The library of Zwickau possesses a work containing a collection of fifty-five songs by Finck, printed about the middle of the 16th century .