Clara Mannes (née Damrosch; 12 December 1869 – 16 March 1948) was a

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-born American musician and

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. She and her brother

Frank Damrosch Frank Heino Damrosch (June 22, 1859 – October 22, 1937) was a German-born American music conductor and educator. In 1905, Damrosch founded the New York Institute of Musical Art, a predecessor of the Juilliard School. Life and career Damrosch ...

also taught at the

Veltin School for Girls Veltin School for Girls was a private school founded by Louise Veltin in 1886 in Manhattan, New York. Veltin and Isabelle Dwight Sprague Smith were the school's principals. The school was initially located at 175 West 73rd Street, but moved in ...

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. With her husband, David Mannes, she founded the David Mannes Music School in 1916, now known as the Mannes School of Music at the New School. Mannes was born in Breslau.Mannes-Damrosch collection
loc.gov. Accessed April 11, 2024. Her mother, Helene von Heimburg, was a former opera singer, and her father was conductor

Leopold Damrosch Leopold Damrosch (October 22, 1832 – February 15, 1885) was a German American orchestral Conducting, conductor, composer, violinist, and teacher. He was the patriarch of the Damrosch family, which includes Frank Damrosch and Walter Damrosch. ...

. Her siblings were conductors

and

Walter Damrosch Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862December 22, 1950) was a Prussian-born American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world premiere performances of various works, including Aa ...

. Her parents were Lutheran (her paternal grandfather was Jewish). Her children were musician

Leopold Mannes Leopold Damrosch Mannes (December 26, 1899 – August 11, 1964) was an American musician, who, together with Leopold Godowsky Jr., created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome. Life and career Mannes was born in New York Cit ...

and author

Marya Mannes Marya Mannes (November 14, 1904 – September 13, 1990) was a 20th-century United States, American writer and critic, known for her caustic but insightful observations of American life. Mannes also wrote under the pen name of "Sec." Life and caree ...

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1869 births 1948 deaths American music educators American people of German-Jewish descent American Lutherans American women musicians German women musicians Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States Musicians from Wrocław {{US-musician-stub