DEATH OF SIR AUGUST MANNS
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. 'LONDON, March 3. (Received March 4, at 8.50 a.m.) Sir August Manus, musical director of the Crystal Palace, is dead; aged eighty-two years. [Sir A. Manns was .bom at Stolzenburg (Germany) on March 12, 1825. From October, 1&55, till 1905, he was musical director of the Crystal Palace, also founder of tho Saturday concerts held there, and in 1885 conductor of the Handel festival. The degree of Music*! Doctor was conferred on him by Oxford University in 1903. Nearly all the great musicians and singers of the last two generations have either played or sung under his Icadershinp.]
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Evening Star, Issue 12061, 4 March 1907, Page 6
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