Henning Mankell (composer)

Ivar Henning Mankell ( stress on the first syllable; born June 3, 1868 in Härnösand, northern Sweden, † 8 May 1930 in Stockholm) was a Swedish composer.

Mankell studied from 1887 to 1891 at the Conservatory of Stockholm and was a piano student of Lennart Arvid Lundberg and Hilda Thegerström. Since 1899 he worked there as a piano and harmony teacher. He also wrote music reviews for the Svenska Morgonbladet and Stockholms - Tidningen. In 1917 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

He composed a piano concerto, a cantata for baritone and orchestra, sonatas, fantasies, and ballads for piano, three string quartets, a piano quintet and a piano trio and songs.

Henning Mankell is the grandson of Kapellmeister and organist Johann Hermann Mankel, who was born in Niederasphe, a district of Munchausen, in Hesse Marburg- Biedenkopf and later to stations in France and the Netherlands on Christian field in Denmark Royal Kapellmeister to Karlskrona in Sweden emigrated. Related named Mankel still live in Munchausen.

Mankell is the grandfather of the writer Henning Mankell.