Michael Mann (scholar)

Summary

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]

 
Mann's grave at the cemetery of Kilchberg in the canton of Zurich, where he is buried in the family grave with his parents and his sisters.

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 [de] (born 1940) and Toni as well as an adopted daughter, Rhau.[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

Reissue: Johanna Martzy/Michael Mann: Complete Deutsche Grammophon recordings. Deutsche Grammophon/eloquence 484 3299 (2021)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Katia Mann (1883-1980) | The National Library of Israel". www.nli.org.il. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ a b c d "Michael Thomas Mann, German: Berkeley". University of California: In Memoriam. UC History Digital Archive. 1978. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
  5. ^ New York Viola Society list of recordings
  6. ^ "Our guest on 24.05.2009 Frido Mann, Author and Psychologist – DW – 08/21/2009". dw.com. Retrieved December 26, 2023.

External links edit

  • Michael Mann genealogy wiki