HERZOGENBERG, HEINRICH VON Austrian musician and friend of Brahms, was born at Graz, Styria, on June io, 1843, and studied at the Vienna conservatoire. He settled in Leipzig in 1872, and from 1875 to 1885 was conductor of the Bach Verein. He was later professor at the Berlin Hoch schule, and at Kiel, retiring in 1888. He wrote much chamber music and scholarly church and orchestral works, all of which bear the impress of his intimacy with Brahms.
See J, Kalbeck, Brahms, in Briefwechsel mit Heinrich and Elisabeth Herzogenberg (2 vols., 1907).