Robert Mann was first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet from the year he founded it, in 1946, until 1997. In addition to that unparalleled tenure, during which the Juilliard Quartet premiered dozens of new works and performed and recorded hundreds of others, Mann is an accomplished conductor, composer and teacher. I should know, as I was one of his students.

I interviewed Mann at his Manhattan apartment in 2005.