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.[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.

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.

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, 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

Deutsche Grammophon. Recorded in Hanover, Germany

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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "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. 1 2 3 4 "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.
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