Heinrich was natural to a rich personal inside Bohemia; notwithstanding his personal was ruined in the period of the Napoleonic wars & ensuing economic crash, and he chose to emigrate inside 1810 in order to establish a business in the newly United States. Stillborn, he decided to attempt the music career instead.

a formative case for him was the 700-mile journeying, in foot, into the woods of Pennsylvania and then along the Ohio River into Kentucky. A sights & sounds of the newly Western frontier inspired a bit of of the virtually all original, in case does'nt unknown, program music of the nineteenth century. Settling for the year within a log cabin touching Bardstown, Kentucky, in a curious adumbrative of Thoreau, he began to produce a oeuvre unlike anything existence written inside Europe at the period. A select few of the titles of his pieces include: A Dawning of Music inside Kentucky, or even a Pleasures of Harmony in the Solitudes of Nature and severity; A Columbiad, or even Migration of Western Uncivilized Passenger Pigeons; A Ornithological Combat of Kings, or even a Condor of the Andes; A Minstrelsy of Nature and severity in the Wilds of Northward Usa; ''A Untamed Wood Spirits' Chant; A Pact of William Penn by owning a Indians'' (the uncommon 19th century concerto grosso).

Stylistically Heinrich's music has thomas more inside green sustaining more early Western music than sustaining a system of his European coeval. He shuns development, preferring episodic forms, especially a theme with variations, which he uses to telling expressive result. He on occasion writes passages of startling, possibly jarring, chromaticism, usually within an attempt to express an extramusical idea. Typically his music has an improvisatory quality (great deal of his music might, as a matter of fact, become notated improvisation, especially shopping for its copious quantity).

Heinrich was successful around his European tours (a tours existence necessary because of a want of competent orchestras in the United States in the period prior to the Civil War), but he died neglected, & in the impoverishment he got fled.

Typically Heinrich's music is revived, & universally sustaining a select few astonishment at his enthusiasm, expressiveness & eccentricity.