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Death of 20th century pianist

Death of 20th century pianist

ECM Records has announced the death of 20th-century piano specialist Herbert Henck at the age of 76.

Henck released eight albums of modern rep.


Herbert Henck, brilliant pianist, dedicated interpreter of modern music, and an insightful writer on contemporary composition, has died, aged 76. His eight ECM New Series albums constitute a unique body of work. In his performances, as in his musicological studies, Henck liked to cast light on overlooked or hidden aspects of the music. This quality of revelation illuminates each of his recordings, whether exploring the Zen playfulness of John Cage’s piano music, the motoric drive of George Antheil and Conlon Nancarrow’s pieces, the aphoristic – and forgotten – 12-tone works of Johann Ludwig Trepulka, or the shimmering stasis of Hans Otte’s Das Buch der Klänge, which Jean-Luc Godard adopted as the soundtrack for his film De l’origine du XXIe siècle.

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