Alfred Mann (musicologist)
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| Born | April 28, 1917 Nazis before World War II . |
Alfred Mann (April 28, 1917 – September 21, 2006), was an American
musical theory. He was a professor of Musicology[5] at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. His parents were the portrait painter Wilhelm Mann and the well-known harpsichordist and musicologist Edith Weiss-Mann
.
Biography
Alfred Mann left Germany before
Professor Emeritus
in 1987.
Important Writings
In 1938, Mann published his German translation[1] of Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum next to the first one by Lorenz Christoph Mizler in 1742.
In 1943, Mann made the first real translation of Gradus ad Parnassum into English[2] next to the one with paraphrases by an anonymous translator.[2] The translation contained the preface, pages 41 – 139 and page 279 of the original work, based on his German translation version.[1][2]
In 1958, Mann translated[3][4] into English, the part of Gradus ad Parnassum that concerned the composition of a fugue, pages 140 – 217 of the original work.
References
- ^ Moeck1938.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-393-00277-5.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-393-09675-0.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-486-25439-5
- ^ a b Alfred Mann: A Life Sketch (short biography) Michael Dodds, Eastman School of Music, (last edited) 2007
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