Hermann Finck

{{Short description|German composer (1527–1558)}} {{for|the nineteenth-century composer and conductor|Herman Finck}} {{Infobox person | name = Hermann Finck | image = Hermann Finck Practica Musica.jpg | birth_date = 21 March 1527 | birth_name = | birth_place = Pirna, Germany | death_date = {{Death date and age|1558|12|28|1527|3|21|df=y}} | death_place = Wittenberg, Germany | occupation = Writer, Composer, Organist | spouse = | children = }}

'''Hermann Finck''' (21 March 1527 – 28 December 1558) was a German music theorist, composer and organist.

== Career == Finck was born in Pirna, and died at Wittenberg. After 1553 he lived at Wittenberg, where he was organist, and there, in 1555, was published his collection of wedding songs.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Finck, Hermann|volume=10|page=354}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Finck-Hermann.htm|title=Hermann Finck (Composer) - Short Biography|website=www.bach-cantatas.com|access-date=2019-01-10}}</ref> In 1545 he matriculated at Wittenberg University<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09661|title=Finck, Hermann (1527 - 1558), theorist, composer, teacher, organist : Grove Music Online - oi|website=oxfordindex.oup.com|language=en|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09661|access-date=2019-01-10}}</ref> and then taught at the university from 1554 and became an organist in 1557.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hoasm.org/IVH/FinckHerm.html|title=HOASM: Hermann Finck|website=www.hoasm.org|access-date=2019-01-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r0dm_fXNl0sC&q=Hermann+Finck+german+composer&pg=PA61|title=Readings in the History of Music in Performance|last=Cross|first=Jennifer|date=1979|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253144959|language=en}}</ref>

== Works == 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.<ref name="EB1911"/> In the work, he praised Gombert as a great master and he condemned the German organ style of the time for being noisy and amorphous.<ref name=":0" /> In book five, entitled, "On the Art of Singing Elegantly and Sweetly" he gave advice to singers.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4x8DwAAQBAJ&q=Hermann+Finck+german+composer&pg=PA71|title=So You Want to Sing Early Music: A Guide for Performers|last=Elliott|first=Martha|date=2019-02-15|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781538105900|language=en}}</ref>

== Family == Finck was the great-nephew of composer Heinrich Finck.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Finck, Hermann}} Category:German music theorists Category:1527 births Category:1558 deaths Category:16th-century German composers Category:German musicologists