Michael Mann (scholar)
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Michael Thomas Mann (April 21, 1919 – January 1, 1977) was a German-born musician and professor of German literature.
Life
Born in Munich, Michael Mann was the youngest and sixth child of writer Thomas Mann and Katia Mann.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> His older siblings were Erika, Klaus, Golo, Monika and Elisabeth. He was of Jewish descent from his mother's side.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Due to his being the grandson of Júlia da Silva Bruhns, he was also of Portuguese-Indigenous Brazilian partial descent.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
He studied viola and violin in Zürich, Paris and New York City.Template: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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref> Accompanied by pianist Yaltah Menuhin, he made a concert tour in 1951 and recorded the 1948 Viola Sonata by Ernst Krenek.<ref>New York Viola Society list of recordings</ref> He was forced to give up professional music due to a neuropathy.Template: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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
He was married to Gret and they had two sons, Template:Interlanguage link multi (born 1940) and Toni as well as an adopted daughter, Raju.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He died of a heart attack at age 57 in Orinda, California on 1 January 1977.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> There is a stone with his name on it on his parents' grave in Kilchberg, Switzerland.
Discography
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)
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- 1919 births
- 1977 deaths
- American academics of German literature
- German expatriates in France
- German expatriates in Switzerland
- German male violinists
- German people of Jewish descent
- German people of Portuguese descent
- Harvard University alumni
- Jewish American classical musicians
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- Jewish violinists
- Literature educators
- Mann family
- Scholars of German literature
- German Germanists
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- University of California, Berkeley Department of German faculty
- 20th-century German violinists
- 20th-century German classical musicians
- 20th-century German male musicians