Michael Mann (scholar)
Michael Thomas Mann (April 21, 1919 – January 1, 1977) was a German-born musician and professor of German literature.
Life
[edit]Born in Munich, Michael Mann was the youngest and sixth child of writer Thomas Mann and Katia Mann.[1] His older siblings were Erika, Klaus, Golo, Monika and Elisabeth. He was of Jewish descent from his mother's side.[2] Due to his being the grandson of Júlia da Silva Bruhns, he was also of Portuguese-Indigenous Brazilian partial descent.[3]
He studied viola and violin in Zürich, Paris and New York City.[citation needed]
He was a viola player in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1942 to 1947 as well as being a solo viola player.[1][4] Accompanied by pianist Yaltah Menuhin, he made a concert tour in 1951 and recorded the 1948 Viola Sonata by Ernst Krenek.[5] He was forced to give up professional music due to a neuropathy.[citation needed]
Mann gained a master's degree in musicology from Duquesne University and a PhD in German literature from Harvard before joining the German faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961.[1][4]
Mann published a number of books on musicology, short stories, an opera libretto and journal articles. Subjects of his publications included Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Schiller, Schubart and his father's works.[1][4]
He was married to Gret and they had two sons, Fridolin "Frido" Mann (born 1940) and Toni as well as an adopted daughter, Raju.[1][6]
He died in Orinda, California on 1 January 1977.[4] There is a stone with his name on it on his parents' grave in Kilchberg, Switzerland.
Discography
[edit]Deutsche Grammophon. Recorded in Hanover, Germany
- Arthur Honegger – Sonata for viola and piano (1920); Michael Mann (viola); Dika Newlin (piano); recorded 19 March 1952
- Ernst Krenek – Sonata for viola and piano (1948); Michael Mann (viola); Yaltah Menuhin (piano); recorded 9 April 1951
- Darius Milhaud - Quatre Visages (1943); Michael Mann (viola); Dika Newlin (piano); recorded 21 May 1952
Reissue: Johanna Martzy/Michael Mann: Complete Deutsche Grammophon recordings. Deutsche Grammophon/eloquence 484 3299 (2021)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Michael Mann Dies at 57; Son of the German Author Was Teacher at Berkeley". The New York Times. January 4, 1977. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
- ^ "Katia Mann (1883-1980) | The National Library of Israel". www.nli.org.il. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
- ^ Kontje, Todd (2015), Castle, Gregory (ed.), "Mann's Modernism", A History of the Modernist Novel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 311–326, ISBN 978-1-107-03495-2, retrieved August 25, 2023
- ^ a b c d "Michael Thomas Mann, German: Berkeley". University of California: In Memoriam. UC History Digital Archive. 1978. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
- ^ New York Viola Society list of recordings
- ^ "Our guest on 24.05.2009 Frido Mann, Author and Psychologist – DW – 08/21/2009". dw.com. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
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- 1919 births
- German emigrants to the United States
- German people of Jewish descent
- German violinists
- German male violinists
- Harvard University alumni
- Literature educators
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- American academics of German literature
- Mann family
- 20th-century violinists
- 20th-century German classical musicians
- 20th-century German male musicians
- 1977 deaths
- German expatriates in Switzerland
- German expatriates in France
- Scholars of German literature
- German people of Portuguese descent