Alfred Mann, musicologist and historian of the Baroque, dies.(Passages)

Alfred Mann, a musicologist and teacher, died September 26, 2006. He was 89.

Mann, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, is perhaps best remembered for his translations of and commentary on the works of the Austrian composer and musical theorist J. J. Fux (1660-1741), whose pedagogical writings, along with those of C. P. E. Bach, opened windows into the world of 18th-century performance practice and influenced the…