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Michael Mann

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Birth Date:
21.04.1919
Death date:
01.01.1977
Extra names:
Michael Thomas Mann
Categories:
Musician, Pedagogue, teacher, Professor
Nationality:
 german
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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 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. He was forced to give up professional music due to a neuropathy.

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

Michael, like several of his siblings and at least two of his aunts, suffered from depression and committed suicide in Orinda, California. There is a stone with his name on it on his parents' grave in Kilchberg, Switzerland.

Source: wikipedia.org

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Thomas  MannThomas MannFather06.06.187512.08.1955
        2Katia  MannKatia MannMother24.07.188325.04.1980
        3Golo MannGolo MannBrother27.03.190907.04.1994
        4Klaus MannKlaus MannBrother18.11.190621.05.1949
        5Monika MannMonika MannSister07.06.191017.03.1992
        6Erika MannErika MannSister09.11.190527.08.1969
        7Elisabeth Mann-BorgeseElisabeth Mann-BorgeseSister24.04.191808.02.2002
        8Heinrich MannHeinrich MannUncle27.03.187111.03.1950
        9Viktor MannViktor MannUncle12.04.189021.04.1949
        10Julia LöhrJulia LöhrAunt13.08.187710.05.1927
        11Carla MannCarla MannAunt23.09.188130.07.1910
        12W. H. AudenW. H. AudenBrother in-law21.02.190729.09.1973
        13Giuseppe Antonio BorgeseGiuseppe Antonio BorgeseBrother in-law12.11.188204.12.1952
        14Gustaf GründgensGustaf GründgensBrother in-law22.12.189907.10.1963
        15Alfred PringsheimAlfred PringsheimGrandfather02.09.185025.06.1941
        16Thomas Johann Heinrich MannThomas Johann Heinrich MannGrandfather22.08.184013.10.1891
        17Júlia da Silva BruhnsJúlia da Silva BruhnsGrandmother14.08.185111.03.1923
        18Hedwig  PringsheimHedwig PringsheimGrandmother13.07.185527.07.1942
        19Johann Siegmund Mann, Jr.Johann Siegmund Mann, Jr.Great grandfather02.04.179701.02.1863
        20Leonie MannLeonie MannCousin10.09.191625.10.1986

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