Herbert Henck, born 1948 in Treysa, Hessen, Germany, is a freelance pianist specializing almost exclusively in 20th century music, about which he has written several books and numerous essays. From 1980 to 1985 he published, under his own imprint, a five-volume series of yearbooks entitled Neuland/Ansatze zur Musik der Gegenwart (N /ew Ground/Approaches to Contemporary Music) to which more than a hundred authors contributed. In 1994 his book Experimentelle Pianistik. Improvisation, Interpretation, Komposition. Schriften zur Klaviermusik (1982-92) was published.

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