Michael Mann (scholar)

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

[1][4] Accompanied by pianist Yaltah Menuhin, he made a concert tour in 1951 and recorded the 1948 Viola Sonata by Ernst Krenek.

[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.

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.