Emil Mangelsdorff
Emil Mangelsdorff | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Emil Mangelsdorff |
Born | 11 April 1925 |
Origin | Frankfurt am Main |
Genres | Jazz |
Instruments | alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute |
Associated acts | Albert Mangelsdorff, Attila Zoller, George Gruntz, Vitold Rek, Jutta Hipp |
Emil Mangelsdorff (born 11 April 1925 in Frankfurt am Main) is a jazz musician who plays alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet and flute.
In 1942 and 1943, Mangelsdorff studied clarinet at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. As a member of the Frankfurt Hot Club, his performing of jazz, with Hans Otto Jung among others, led him to being imprisoned by the Gestapo. He was forced into the German army and was a Russian prisoner of war for four years. In 1949 he came back to Frankfurt and decided to become a professional jazz musician. He played in the combos of and Jutta Hipp, and was also a member of the Frankfurt All Stars and of the Jazz-Ensemble des Hessischen Rundfunks from 1958. Since the 1960s he has directed his own quartet.
In 1964 Mangelsdorff wrote an instruction manual for jazz saxophone. In 2006 he was awarded the Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen. In 2008 he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
Jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff was his brother.
Sources[]
- Carlo Bohländer, Reclams Jazzführer, Stuttgart 1970
- Michael H. Kater, Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-19-516553-5
- Swing clarinetists
- Post-bop flautists
- Post-bop saxophonists
- German jazz saxophonists
- Male saxophonists
- 1925 births
- Living people
- Hoch Conservatory alumni
- Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- German jazz clarinetists
- German jazz flautists
- 21st-century saxophonists
- 21st-century clarinetists
- 21st-century German male musicians
- German male jazz musicians