Christoph Wolff
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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 Freiburg, receiving a performance diploma in 1963 and a Dr. Phil. 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.
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 (New York, 2000). Wolff (re)discovered a number of works by Bach (notably the Neumeister Chorales) that were previously unknown or deemed lost.
