Herbert Henck

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Herbert Henck (born July 28, 1948 in Treysa , today Schwalmstadt ) is a German pianist .

Life

Herbert Henck was born on July 28, 1948, the son of the doctor Wilhelm Heinrich Helmut Henck (1920–1994) and his wife Irmgard Maria Elisabeth Franziska, née Christel, (1925–1966) in Treysa.

His piano studies he entered the Conservatory in Mannheim . He completed his studies in Stuttgart and Cologne . Aloys Kontarsky and Wilhelm Hecker were his teachers at the music college there . In 1975 he finished his studies with the concert exam. Since then he has been working as a freelance pianist.

In concerts he devotes himself almost exclusively to the music of the 20th century, on which he also published numerous works. In particular, he interprets works by the American composer Charles Ives .

Between 1980 and 1985 he self-published five volumes of the yearbook Neuland - Approaches of Music to the Present , in which contributions from over a hundred authors from all over the world are brought together and thus the broad spectrum of New Music is presented. In addition to his international concert activities as one of the most important interpreters of contemporary music, he regularly gives lectures and has given master classes in many places.

Herbert Henck has recorded over 50 records and CDs so far, including piano works by George Antheil , Klarenz Barlow , Jean Barraqué , Pierre Boulez , John Cage , Georges I. Gurdjieff , Norbert von Hannenheim , Thomas de Hartmann , Josef Matthias Hauer , Charles Ives , Charles Koechlin , Federico Mompou , Alexander Mossolow , Conlon Nancarrow , Hans Otte , Arnold Schönberg , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Johann Ludwig Trepulka and Walter Zimmermann .

In 1986 Henck was awarded the German Critics' Prize.

Herbert Henck is married and has one daughter.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen's piano piece X. History, theory, analysis, practice, documentation. A contribution to understanding serial composition technology (Herrenberg 1976, 2nd edition and English translation Cologne 1980)
  • Experimental pianistics. Improvisation, interpretation, composition. Writings on piano music 1982 to 1992 (Mainz: Schott-Verlag, 1994)
  • Advocate for Hauer. Hermann Heiß and the background to a letter from Thomas Mann to Ellie Bommersheim in 1949 (Deinstedt: Kompost-Verlag, 1998)
  • Piano cluster. History, theory and practice of a sound shape , series "Signals from Cologne", Vol. 9 (Münster et al: Lit-Verlag, 2004)
  • Norbert von Hannenheim. The search for the Transylvanian composer and his work (Deinstedt: Kompost-Verlag, 2007)
  • Hermann Heiss . Additions to a biography . Kompost, Deinstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-9802341-6-0 .
  • Ellen Epstein (1898-1942). A Jewish artist from Silesia , 2007–2013 (accessed April 11, 2014). Biographical material on the pianist Ellen Epstein

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personal data
SURNAME Henck, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Treysa