Mannes

(min’-nés), (1) David, b. New York, Feb. 16, 1866; violinist, conductor, educator; studied in New York, Berlin and Bru els; played in N. Y. Symph., 1898 concertm.; cond. Symph. Club after 1902; taught at Music School Settlement, N. Y., for some years; beginning 1916, founded and dir. the David Mannes Music School, with his wife (2) Clara (née Damrosch) as co-dir.; cond. of concert series at Met. Museum of Art beginning 1920; gave concerts for young people and adults in cities near N. Y.; toured in sonata recitals with his wife, an accomplished pianist; ed. New Songs for New Voices, with Mrs. Mannes and Louis Untermeyer, 1928. (3) Leopold Damrosch, b. New York, Dec. 6, 1809; son of the preceding; composer and Pianist; grad. Harvard Univ.; pupil of Guy Maier, Cortot, Scalero and others; Pulitzer Prize for comp.; also Guggenheim Fellowship; teacher of comp. and lecturer at David Mannes Music School; and of theory at Inst. of Mus. Art, N. Y.; c. string quartet, variations for piano, suite for 2 Pianos, suite for orch.; introd. and allegro for vIn. and piano; songs; incid. music to “‘The Tempest,” etc. Man’ney, Chas. Fonteyn, b. Brooklyn, 1872; studied with Wm. Arms Fisher and J. Wallace Good rich, Boston; composed cantatas, songs, etc. Manns (mins), Sir August us, Stolzen' burg, near Stettin, March 12, 1825— London, March 2, 1907; noted conductor; son of a gla -blower, who with his sons formed a quintet (vlns., *cello, horn, and flute); at 15, apprenticed to Urban of Elbing; later rst clar. of a regimental band, Dantzig; 1848, at Posen. Wieprecht got him a place as rst vin. in Gungl’s orch. at Berlin; 1849-51, cond. Kroll’s Garden; regimental bandm. Kdénigsberg and Cologne (1854); joined Crystal Palace band, London, as a t.-cond. to Schallen, who pub. as his own M.’s arrangement of certain quadrilles; whereupon M. resigned, publicly stating the reason; 1859 he succeeded S., he later made the band a full orch., giving famous and very popular Saturday Concerts till 1900, when the public ceased to support it; he also cond. 7 Triennial Handel Festivals, concerts of the Glasgow Choral Union, 1879-92, etc. He was knighted 1904.