Clara Mannes
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Clara Mannes, born Clara Damrosch (1869–1948) was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

-born American musician, music educator. With her husband David Mannes
David Mannes
David Mannes was an American violinist, conductor, and educator.Mannes studied in Berlin with Karol Haliř 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...

 she founded the Mannes College The New School for Music in 1916 (then simply the David Mannes Music School).

Mannes, a younger sister of Walter Damrosch, was born in Breslau. Leopold Mannes Damrosch
Leopold Mannes
Leopold Damrosch Mannes was a Jewish-American musician, born in New York City, who, together with Leopold Godowsky, Jr., created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome....

is her son.

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