Hermann Finck

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. In 1545 he matriculated at Wittenberg University and then taught at the university from 1554 and became an organist in 1557.

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.

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