Herbert Henck
Herbert Henck
Latest Release
- Ives: Piano Pieces
- November 2024
- • 8 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | Study No. 9 | ||
| 2 | Three-Page Sonata | ||
| 3 | Waltz-Rondo | ||
| 4 | Varied Air and Variations | ||
| 5 | Study No. 22 |
Albums
Mar 2001 • 19 songs
Sep 1999 • 12 songs
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About
Biography
Pianist Herbert Henck specialized in 20th century music and had a substantial recording catalog on such labels as ECM and Wergo. He was also notable for his large collection of writings about music. Henck was one of Charles Ives' leading non-American interpreters and recorded Ives' Piano Sonata No. 1 in 1996. He also devoted several albums to the music of John Cage.
Henck was born on July 28, 1948, in Treysa, now part of the city of Schwalmstadt in central Germany. His father, Wilhelm Heinrich Helmut Henck, was a physician. Henck attended the Mannheim Conservatory and then we...