Michael Mann (scholar)

German academic (1919–1977)

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

## Life

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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, Raju.[1][6]

He died of a heart attack at age 57 in Orinda, California on 1 January 1977.[4][1] There is a stone with his name on it on his parents' grave in Kilchberg, Switzerland.

## Discography

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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

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* Dohm–Mann family tree

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f "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 21, 2024.
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

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* Michael Mann genealogy wiki

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Thomas Mann

Novels|

* Buddenbrooks
* Royal Highness
* The Magic Mountain
* Joseph and His Brothers
* Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns
* Doctor Faustus
* The Holy Sinner
* Confessions of Felix Krull

Novellas|

* Gladius Dei
* Tristan
* Tonio Kröger
* Death in Venice
* A Man and His Dog
* Disorder and Early Sorrow
* Mario and the Magician
* The Transposed Heads
* The Tables of the Law
* The Black Swan

Short stories|

* Little Herr Friedemann
* The Clown
* Tobias Mindernickel
* The Road to the Churchyard

Other works|

* Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man
* On the German Republic
* The Coming Victory of Democracy
* Listen, Germany!

Family|

* Katia Mann (wife)
* Erika Mann (daughter)
* Klaus Mann (son)
* Golo Mann (son)
* Monika Mann (daughter)
* Elisabeth Mann Borgese (daughter)
* Michael Mann (son)
* Júlia da Silva Bruhns (mother)
* Heinrich Mann (brother)

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