Christoph Wolff
Christoph Wolff is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught from 1976 to 2012. A former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany, he is the author of numerous works of music history including Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791, winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Wolff lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Christoph Wolff
Christoph Wolff is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught from 1976 to 2012. A former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany, he is the author of numerous works of music history including Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791, winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Wolff lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Awards
Winner — ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 2013
Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 2001
Books by Christoph Wolff
Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791
Christoph Wolff
Hardback, 2012
ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winner
A fresh look at the life of Mozart during his imperial years by one of the world's leading Mozart scholars.Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
Christoph Wolff
Paperback, 2001
Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work
Christoph Wolff
Hardback, 2020
A comprehensive and fascinating study of the overall creative output of Johann Sebastian Bach, capturing the essence of his art.Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
Christoph Wolff
E Book, 2001
Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791
Christoph Wolff
E Book, 2012
ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winner
A fresh look at the life of Mozart during his imperial years by one of the world's leading Mozart scholars.Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work
Christoph Wolff
E Book, 2020
A comprehensive and fascinating study of the overall creative output of Johann Sebastian Bach, capturing the essence of his art.The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Selected Cantatas
Christoph Wolff, Ton Koopman
Paperback, 1997
The cantatas of J.S. Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the baroque period. However, when they are played and heard today, questions arise that are...The New Bach Reader
Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel, Christoph Wolff
Revised And Expanded, Paperback, 1999
"Just reading these documents brings this great composer to life in a most exciting and vivid way. I love this book!" —Yo-Yo Ma