Henry Theophilus Finck (22 September 1854 – 1 October 1926) was an American music critic and author.

He championed Romantic music, promoting composers such as Liszt, Wagner, Grieg and MacDowell.

[3][4] Finck was born at Bethel, Missouri, and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he was taught piano and violoncello.

The Harris fellowship from Harvard being awarded to him, he spent three years (1878–1881) in the study of physiological psychology in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna.

[2] He became musical editor of the New York Evening Post in 1881 and was on the editorial staff of the associated journal, The Nation.