HERMANN

See also:

• FINCK, FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON (1718-1766)
• FINCK, HEINRICH (d. c. 1519)
• HERMANN FINCK (1527—1558)

FINCK (1527—1558)  , German composer, the great-nephew of Heinrich Finck, was born on the 21st of March 1527 in Pirna, and died at Wittenberg on the 28th of December 1558 . After 1553 he lived at Wittenberg, where he was organist, and there, in 1555, was published his collection of " wedding songs." Few details of his life have been preserved . His theoretical writing was good, particularly his observations on the art of singing and of making ornamentations in song . His most celebrated 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 .