Heinz Gerhard Pringsheim (7 April 1882 − 31 March 1974) was a German music critic, composer, pianist and radio contributing editor.
His brother Klaus Pringsheim Sr. was a well-known conductor and music teacher, his sister Katia became the wife of Thomas Mann in 1905.
He received his doctorate in 1905 in archaeology, then became a répétiteur under Richard Strauss, became conductor, then went to Berlin and in 1921 composed the music for Mary Wigman's Die sieben Tänze des Lebens.
[2] He also worked as a music critic in Berlin until the National Socialists imposed the Berufsverbot on him in 1933.
After the end of the Second World War, Pringsheim established the music department of the Bayerischer Rundfunk in his hometown Munich and founded the series Musica vivatogether with the composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann.