Michael Mann (scholar)

Michael Thomas Mann (April 21, 1919 – January 1, 1977) was a German-born musician and professor of German literature.

Born in Munich, Michael Mann was the youngest child of writer Thomas Mann and Katia Mann. He studied viola and violin in Zürich, Paris and New York City. On March 6, 1939, he married the Swiss-born Gret Moser (1916–2007) in New York. With her he had two sons, Fridolin ("Frido") and Anthony ("Toni"), as well as an adopted daughter, Raju.

Between 1942 and 1947 he was a violinist in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. In 1949 he made appearances as a viola soloist in the United States and Europe. Accompanied by pianist Yaltah Menuhin, he made a concert tour in 1951 and recorded the 1948 Viola Sonata by Ernst Krenek.^[1] He was forced to give up professional music due to a neuropathy.^[2]

Mann then studied German literature at Harvard, and later worked as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

He committed suicide in Orinda, California, in the United States.

Discography

• Arthur Honegger – Sonata for viola and piano (1920); Michael Mann (viola); Dika Newlin (piano); recorded May 1952
• Ernst Krenek – Sonata for viola and piano (1948); Michael Mann (viola); Yaltah Menuhin (piano); recorded April 1951

References

1. ^ New York Viola Society list of recordings
2. ^ ssource?

External links

• Michael Mann genealogy wiki

See also

• Dohm-Mann family tree

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Name	Mann, Michael
Alternative names
Short description	Musician, professor
Date of birth	April 21, 1919
Place of birth
Date of death	January 1, 1977
Place of death