David Mannes

David Mannes
File:David Mannes.jpg David Mannes
Background information
Born	16 February 1866
Origin	New York City
Died	25 April 1959
Occupation(s)	Conductor, educator
Instruments	Violin

David Mannes (16 February 1866 – 25 April 1959) was an American violinist, conductor, and educator.

Biography

Mannes was born in New York in 1866. He studied in Berlin with Karel Halíř and was a violinist in the New York Symphony Orchestra from 1891 and its concertmaster from 1898 to 1912. In 1912 he helped found the Colored Music Settlement School and in 1916, with his wife Clara Mannes (the daughter of Leopold Damrosch and sister of Walter Damrosch), the Mannes Music School, both in New York City.

Music Is My Faith is his autobiography. Mannes is also discussed in Maurice Peress' "Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots."

He died in 1959, aged 93.

Legacy

His children were musician Leopold Mannes and writer Marya Mannes. He was a friend of, and painted by, Thomas Hart Benton in Portrait of David Mannes and Evening Concert.

Further reading

• Mannes, David (1938). Music is My Faith: An Autobiography W.W. Norton. New York. ISBN 0-306-77595-6 (1978 reprint)
• Peress, Maurice (2004). Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots Oxford. New York. ISBN 0-19-509822-6

External links

David Mannes - "Music is my Faith, an Autobiography" free download: http://archive.org/details/musicismyfaithan008740mbp