Christoph Wolff

Christoph Wolff (born May 24, 1940) is a German-born musicologist, presently on the faculty of Harvard University. Born and educated in Germany, Wolff studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology and art history at the Universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and the Music Academy of Freiburg, receiving a performance diploma in 1963 and a PhD in 1966. Wolff taught the history of music at Erlangen, Toronto, Princeton, and Columbia Universities before joining the Harvard faculty in 1976 as Professor of Music. Currently, he is the Adams University Professor at Harvard University.

Christoph Wolff is best known for his works on the music, life, and times of Johann Sebastian Bach. His books include Bach: Essays on His Life and Music (Cambridge, 1991), Mozart's Requiem (Berkeley, 1994), The New Bach Reader (New York, 1998), and Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. (New York, 2000). He was interviewed about Bach's Art of Fugue in the documentary film Desert Fugue. Since 2001 he is director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig.

He was awarded the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in 2006.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Royal Academy of Music / Kohn Foundation Bach Prize is awarded to John Butt". http://www.ram.ac.uk/whatsnew/Pages/RoyalAcademyofMusicKohnFoundationBachPrizeisawardedtoJohnButt.aspx. Retrieved 2010. 

External links

• Home page at Harvard University
• Harvard at Home: online lectures by Christoph Wolff
• Home page of the Bach Archive in Leipzig

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Name	Wolff, Christoph
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Short description	Musicologist, professor
Date of birth	May 24, 1940
Place of birth	Germany
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