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Christoph Wolff
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Life and career
He was born in Solingen, the son of theologian Hans Walter Wolff. He 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 music history at Erlangen, Toronto, Princeton, and Columbia Universities before joining the Harvard faculty in 1976 as Professor of Music and retiring in 2014. He was also on the graduate faculty of the Juilliard School from 2010 to 2018. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,WEB, Christoph Wolff,weblink American Academy of Arts & Sciences, en, 13 May 2020, the American Philosophical Society, the Saxon Academy of Sciences, the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung (he chaired it from 1996 to 2006) and since 2015 a member of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and the Arts, he also holds an honorary professorship at the University of Freiburg, Germany.Publications and media
His books include Bach: Essays on His Life and Music (Cambridge, 1991), Mozart's Requiem (Berkeley, 1994), The New Bach Reader (New York, 1998), Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 (New York, 2000), and Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work (W.W. Norton, 2020). In 2013, his Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Wolff was interviewed about Bach's The Art of Fugue in the documentary film Desert Fugue.Awards and recognition
He was awarded the IRC Harrison Medal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland in 2004WEB,weblink Irish Research Council â Harrison Medal | Society for Musicology in Ireland, musicologyireland.com, 14 April 2020, 28 July 2020,weblink dead, and the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in 2006.WEB,weblink The Bach Prize, Also he was awarded the Dent Medal of the International Musicological Society in 1978, the Humboldt Research Prize in 1996, the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society in 2000 for Johann Sebastian Bach; the Learned MusicianWEB, Otto Kinkeldey Award Winners â American Musicological Society,weblink www.amsmusicology.org, 13 May 2020, .References
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- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20040603093100weblink">Home page at Harvard University
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20040627090931weblink">Harvard at Home: online lectures by Christoph Wolff
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110202152350weblink">Home page of the Bach Archive in Leipzig
- Bach & Friends documentary
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