Robert C. Mann Music Scholarship

The Robert C. Mann Music Scholarship

Robert C. Mann is Professor of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University and Organist Emeritus of First United Methodist Church, Nacogdoches, where he served twenty-eight years. Dr. Mann teaches courses in the History of Music and Organ Performance on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has also served the School of Music as Interim Chairman. He has enjoyed an active career in organ performance that has included solo organ repertoire, organ duets, and music for two organs. Other scholarly interests are represented by published articles and monographs, editions of historical organ compositions, and lectures and performances for various regional, state, and national convocations of professional organizations.

Dr. Mann has assembled an extensive personal collection of published and unpublished organ duets from which he and his wife, Mary Jane, performed duet recitals. Dr. Mann's annotated bibliography of organ duets is a major study of this repertoire, "An Annotated Bibliography of Organ Duets," The American Organist 23 (October, 1989): 67-70. His edition of Eugene Thayer's duet for organ, "Variations on Auld Lang Syne," (Morning Star Music Publishers, 1992) is the first major organ work of the composer in a modern edition and the only organ duet by the composer in print.

Other publications include an article on Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, formerly organist of the Church of Saint-Suplice, Paris, "In Memoriam: Jean-Jacques Grunenwald," The American Organist 17 (April, 1983): 50-52; "The Organ Music," The Mendelssohn Companion, edited by Douglass Seaton (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001); and an edition of Christmas Pastorale, op. 56 for organ by Gustav Merkel (Vivace Press, 1999).

Dr. Mann has traveled extensively throughout Europe studying and performing on historic organs. His professional affiliations include Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha, and the American Guild of Organists.

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Robert C. Mann Music Scholarship
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Box 13043 SFA Station
Nacogdoches, TX 75962-3043

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