Adel Verna Heinrich (July 20, 1926 – August 10, 2022) was an American composer, organist, and university teacher.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Heinrich graduated from Flora Stone Mather College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1951,[2] and a master's degree in sacred music from the Union Theological Seminary in 1954.
[3] She studied the organ with Hugh Porter, John Harvey, E. Power Biggs, Andre Marchal, and Jean Langlais, the harpsichord with Eugenia Earle, and composition with Norman Coke-Jephcott.
[4] In 1976, she received a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison based on her thesis Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge : a living compendium of fugal procedures.
[10] Since 2007, the Adel Heinrich Award for Achievement in Musicological Research has been presented to graduate students by Case Western Reserve University which comprises the Flore Stone Mather school where Heinrich studied music.