Henry T. Finck

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Henry T. Finck


Born
in Bethel, Missouri, The United States
September 22, 1854

Died
October 01, 1926

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Henry Theophilus Finck (September 22, 1854 – October 1, 1926[1]) was an American music critic, a leading promoter in the United States of Richard Wagner and his musical theories.

Finck was born at Bethel, Missouri, and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he was taught piano and violincello. He taught himself Latin and Greek so thoroughly that he was able to enter Harvard as a sophomore in 1872. At Harvard, he studied philosophy, the classics, and music. He graduated in 1876.

He attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, of which he wrote accounts for newspapers and magazines. The Harris fellowship from Harvard being awarded to him, he spent three years (1878–1881) in the study of physiological psychology in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna.

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Richard Strauss The Man And...

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Grieg and His Music

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Fifty Art Songs by Nineteen...

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“Love is such a tissue of paradoxes, and exists in such endless variety of forms and shades that you may say almost anything about it that you please, and it is likely to be correct.”
Henry Finck

“we are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and it's only end!”
Henry Finck