Heinrich von Herzogenberg

Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family.

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Heinrich von Herzogenberg, born in Graz in 1843, received his musical training at the Vienna Conservatorium from 1862 to 1864 under F. O. Dessoff, according to the Dictionary of Music (1896). After residing in Graz until 1872, he settled in Leipzig, where he co-founded the “Bach-Verein” in 1874 with Philipp Spitta, Franz v. Holstein, and Alfred Volkland. Herzogenberg himself took over the direction of this society in 1875. In 1885, he was called to Berlin to succeed Fr. Kiel as professor and head of an academical “Meisterschule” for composition, also directing the composition branch at the High School of Music, a position Max Bruch later assumed in 1892, as noted in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). His songs, described in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1922) as “refined and thoughtful,” were “carefully worked out” and appealed to those valuing the “intellectual side of song-writing,” though they were perceived as “lacking in spontaneity.” Herzogenberg’s compositions, which include a symphony titled “Odysseus” and variations on a theme by Brahms, were published by the eminent German firm Rieter-Biedermann (A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1883). He also taught notable students, such as Heinrich XXIV., Prince of Reuss-Köstritz (Dictionary of Music, 1896).