HERMANN FINCK (1527—1558)
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V10,
Page 354
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:HERMANN See also:FINCK (1527—1558)
, See also:German composer, the See also:great-See also:nephew of Heinrich See also:Finck, was See also:born on the 21st of See also:March 1527 in See also:Pirna, and died at See also:Wittenberg on the 28th of See also:December 1558
.
After 1553 he lived at Wittenberg, where he was organist, and there, in 1555, was published his collection of " See also:wedding songs." Few details of his See also:life have been preserved
.
His theoretical See also:writing was See also:good, particularly his observations on the See also:art of singing and of making ornamentations in See also:song
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His most celebrated See also:work is entitled Practica musica, exempla-variorum signorum, proportionum, et canonum, judicium de tonis ac quaedam de arte suaviter et artificiose cantandi continens (Wittenberg, 1556)
.
It is of great historic value, but very rare
.
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