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Christoph Wolff

Born

in Solingen, Germany

May 24, 1940

Genre

Music, Biography

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Christoph Wolff is a German-born musicologist, who is best known for his works on the music, life, and times of Johann Sebastian Bach. Christoph Wolff has been on the faculty of Harvard University since 1976 and director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig since 2001.

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	Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician 4.20 avg rating — 1,153 ratings — published 2000 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791 3.96 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work 4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2020 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bach: Essays on His Life and Music 4.44 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Sacred Cantatas by Christoph Wolff (Editor), Ton Koopman (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Organs of J.S. Bach: A Handbook by Christoph Wolff, Markus Zepf, Lynn Edwards Butler (Translator) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Studies of the Autograph Manuscripts 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bach El Musico Sabio II (Ma Non Troppobach) (Spanish Edition) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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De wereld van de Bach-cantates (2 books)
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Christoph Wolff,

Ton Koopman (Contributor),

Wim van der Zwan (Translator),

Guido van Oorschot (Translator)

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“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.”
― Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

tags: god, mankind, math, music, sound

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“He had essentially created the new genre of string trio in 1788 with the Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563.”
― Christoph Wolff, Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791

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“6 Yet, history took a different course. Mozart died that December and the adjunct post fell to Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, court organist in Vienna, distinguished composer, theorist, and Mozart’s senior by twenty years.7 A little over a year later, the Viennese magistrate also honored the commitment previously made to Mozart and, after Hofmann’s death in March 1793, Albrechtsberger became kapellmeister of the cathedral and retained that office until the end of his life in 1809.”
― Christoph Wolff, Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791

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