Background
Mann was born in Madras, India, the son of Gerald and Joyce Mann.
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Music in Time
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James Galway's Music in Time
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Operas of Mozart
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The Operas of Mozart
(This volume deals with all of Mozart's theatrical works, ...)
This volume deals with all of Mozart's theatrical works, surveying each of the operas in depth. Mann provides a summary of each opera, discussing premieres and the singers for whom the music was written, and includes an account of later revivals and English translations of any solo arias.
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William Mann
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Education
Born in India, he was educated at Winchester and Cambridge, studying music with several prominent composers, before taking up a career as a critic. He was educated at the Dragon School and Winchester, after which he took lessons in London, studying the piano with Ilona Kabos and composition with Mátyás Seiber.
Career
Foreign most of his career he was on the staff of The Times in London, where his radical views were in contrast with the paper"s traditional outlook. He published many books and articles in musical journals. After leaving The Times Mann was director of the Bath Festival for a year.
He was at Magdalene College, Cambridge from 1946 to 1948, studying with the composers Patrick Hadley and Robin Orr and the organist Hubert Middleton.
On leaving Cambridge in 1948 Mann joined The Times in London. He remained at The Times for 34 years, first as assistant music critic (1948-1960) and then as chief music critic (1960-1982).
As a broadcaster, however, he was better known as a regular contributor to the British Broadcasting Corporation Third Programme (later British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3). He contributed reviews to The Gramophone for many years.
In 1985 Mann was director of the Bath Festival in succession to Sir William Glock.
Mann died in Bath at the age of 65.
Achievements
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Although the paper in the post-war decades was generally conservative and traditional, Mann was, as a colleague described him, "markedly progressive, even iconoclastic, in outlook." He achieved notoriety for his assertion that the Beatles were "the greatest songwriters since Schubert", and most unusually for a serious music critic appeared as a panellist on the television popular music programme "Juke Box Jury".
Works
book
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The Operas of Mozart
(This volume deals with all of Mozart's theatrical works, ...)
- Music in Time
- James Galway's Music in Time
- Operas of Mozart
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The Operas of Mozart
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Born
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Died
September 5, 1989 (aged 65)