Henri Herz

Henri Herz ( Heinrich) ( born January 6, 1803 in Vienna, † January 5, 1888 in Paris) was a French ( Austrian born ) pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano maker.

Training

Heinrich Herz was trained as a child by his father and by Daniel Hünten in Koblenz. He was accepted April 19, 1816 in the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied piano with Louis- Barthélémy Pradher, harmony with Victor Dourlen and composition with Anton Reicha.

Concerts, pianos, concert hall

As a celebrated pianist, he entered the world on tours, for example, in Europe, Russia, North and South America. This " My Trips in America " were next to the book eight piano concertos and other pieces.

Henri Herz was a partner in the piano workshop of Henri Klepfer et Cie. Paris, a compound that was not successful. Then Heart founded his own piano factory, which in 1865 counted after initial difficulties of the three major piano factories in France.

In 1842 he had built "heart Salle des Concerts " together with his brother in Paris rue de la Victoire, the. Among other things there several works of Hector Berlioz and Jacques Offenbach premiered. In 1867 an international conference of the organization Anti-Slavery International was held there. The building was demolished in 1874.

Compositions

In the center of the compositions is the piano. In addition to a large number of solo piano works are among other eight concertos for piano and orchestra.

List of compositions by Henri Herz

Contemporary criticism

Robert Schumann was his music for shallow. Schumann's wife Clara Schumann, however, saw it as a laudable property that call out the interpretation of the lecturer.