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	Johann Sebastian Bach biography by Christoph Wolff
		Christoph Wolff is modest and stresses the fact that the research on Bach is far from finished.
		Wolff agrees with Daniel Schubart, a 18th-century critic and musician, who once said that what Newton means to physics, Bach means to music.
		According to Wolff, if Bach has created a revolution, it is based on his theory of composition which integrated the up to then separated principals of general bass, harmony and counterpoint.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo7/wolffbach.htm (983 words)

	Harvard Gazette: A musical feast honors Christoph Wolff
		The event honored Christoph Wolff, the Adams University Professor and Curator of the Isham Memorial Library.
		Wolff, who was born and educated in Germany, also serves as director of the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig, chair of the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung in Salzburg, and president of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales.
		Wolff, an accomplished keyboard player in his own right, is one of those scholars who has helped to bring together scholarship and performance," said Levin.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/09.29/15-bach.html (831 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach
		Magister Johann Christoph Zerbst functioned as the officiating minister at the baptism of the child born to Ambrosius and Maria Elisabeth Bach on the previous Saturday, March 21.
		Christoph Bach served from 1642 to 1654 as town musician in Erfurt and thereafter as town and court musician in Arnstadt, eleven miles away.
		Christoph Bach's significance as a keyboard virtuoso can hardly be judged on the basis of his surviving works for organ and harpsichord, which do not measure up in either quantity or quality to his vocal oeuvre.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/w/wolff-bach.html (6720 words)

	Bookreview: "Bach"
		Wolff also reveals that the aggrandized version of Ein feste Burg was not authorized by Johann Sebastian's eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann.
		Of greater significance, Wolff contends that the latter composition was not terminated, following the BACH exposition, in the exigency of imminent demise.
		It is perhaps a measure of the significance of Wolff's tract that he is able to speculate, while at the same time chipping away the accretions of myth surrounding the monolith, without dimming Bach's hallowed reputation among musicians.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/eccb.html (919 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Two are named University Professors
		Christoph Wolff is a scholar of enormous learning and insight who has greatly expanded our knowledge and appreciation of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Wolff said that he has "always been interested in branching out and learning from other disciplines and collaborating with various colleagues at the University." But he added that serving as dean of the Graduate School from 1992-2000 "opened my eyes to the richness of the University landscape and had an impact on my musical scholarship.
		Wolff's primary research interests are music of the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly Bach and Mozart, and he has written or edited 20 books and over 150 articles, studies, and musical editions.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/10.03/01-uprofessors.html (1477 words)

	Teachers College - Columbia University: News
		Wolff noted that a lack of documentation and notes on Bach's life made writing this book a challenge.
		Wolff referred to two other biographical pieces: a notice of Bach's death in the mid-1700s and a biography published in 1802.
		Wolff responded that he found a manuscript in Kiev-in Bach's own hand-that is the last known sample of his handwriting.
	www.tc.columbia.edu /news/article.htm?id=2264 (712 words)

	Mozart's Requiem
		Christoph Wolff provides a critical introduction to the Requiem in its many facets.
		Wolff summarizes the current state of research on the subject, provides new perspectives on Mozart's conception of the whole work, and surveys his contributions to the movements composed posthumously by his assistant, Süssmayr.
		Christoph Wolff is William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/5901.html (322 words)

	Christoph Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
		Additionally, the implications of Dr. Wolff's work resonate well beyond the scope of his subject, and while it may seem off-topic to begin with a discussion of this wider context, his perspective and achievement will come into much clearer focus if we look briefly at some of these other issues first.
		Wolff brilliantly exploits the tension between Bach's mundane existence, and what we believe his work as composer, performer, teacher, instrument maker, scholar, and practical theorist really meant to him.
		Bach's exploration of minor keys was clearly one aspect of his "learned" side, an attempt to broaden the current of musical discourse, and there's no greater or more cogent proof of the unity of intellectual and emotional expression in his music than the overwhelming success of this particular project.
	www.classicstoday.com /features/f1_0900.asp (2551 words)

	MusicTeachers.co.uk Online Journal - Reviews - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wolff's demonstration of Bach's learning process, his (for want of a better word) apprenticeship at Arnstadt, the manner in which he drew upon models from Germany and abroad and his early compositional processes, are carefully and intelligently scrutinised.
		Wolff evidently feels this, and in trying to re-establish it as an organ composition, examines other important factors that might be brought to bear.
		Bach in English; it is meticulously researched, readable, and demonstrates Wolff's qualities as one of the most outstanding Bach scholars of the late 20th century.
	www.musicteachers.co.uk /journal/index.php?issue=2000-09&file=bachwolff (542 words)

	Amazon.com: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wolff devotes a great deal of space to examining how Bach was viewed by his contemporaries, to whom, of course, the idea of a musician as an artist--as opposed to a sort of scientist of sound (there are valuable comparisons of Bach's achievement to that of his contemporary, Isaac Newton)--was quite foreign.
		Wolff has excavated contemporary documents, giving remarkable detail on Bach's earnings and on the disposition of his manuscripts after his death to the various members of his multitudinous family; also included are charming examples of the musician's youthful zeal, such as his journey, 250 miles on foot, to see and hear the admired organist/composer Buxtehude.
		Wolff does not get too bogged down in musical terms: this layman did struggle periodically, and I would understand more if I were a musician, but a lack of music theory would not destroy this books value to you.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393322564?v=glance (3795 words)

	Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute: Working Papers, 6
		Christoph Wolff again raised the question of suspected lost Bach manuscripts in Kyiv in the spring of 1998, in connection with what he hoped would to be a definitive edition of the extant C.P.E. Bach legacy.
		Christoph Wolff kindly showed me his xerox copy of this catalog, which is organized in several sections by type of materials.
		Wolff since prepared a reply explaining the scholarly purposes of the project, the importance of preservation microfilming and cataloguing, and noting the lack of any published reference to the collection as being held in Kyiv, before the Harvard University press release at the beginning of August.
	www.huri.harvard.edu /workpaper/grimsted/SingAka.html (6474 words)

	Peak Professorships
		Christoph Wolff, formerly Mason professor of music and past dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is now Adams University Professor.
		A scholar of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music, Wolff is particularly known for his recent definitive biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, and for helping to discover the musical estate of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Ukrainian archives (see "Bach in the USSR," November-December 1999, page 21).
		Wolff has chaired the music department and served as curator of the music library.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/0103118.html (526 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era.
		Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.
		Christoph Wolff, William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University, is co-author of The Bach Compendium, co-editor of Bach-Jahrbuch, and author of The New Grove Bach Family.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall01/032256.htm (317 words)

	Chico News and Review - Music - March 6, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Wolff comes to Chico State to take part in a Bach festival this Thursday through Saturday, one of the world's leading Bach experts will share his captivating experiences searching for the lost Bach work as well as the challenging task of cataloging and editing the vast number of compositions included in the collection.
		Born in Germany, Christoph Wolff studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology and art history at the universities of Berlin, Erlangen and Freiburg, taking a performance diploma in 1963 and Ph.D. in 1966.
		David Rothe, Chico State University organist and coordinator of the Bach festival, calls Wolff "one of the greatest musical minds of the present day" and notes that the scholar is also an engaging speaker who can present his vast knowledge of music in accessible ways that will arouse the interest of general audiences.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/Chico/2003-03-06/music.asp (1105 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wolff does do, however, an exquisite job of analysis of Bach's vocal music, exploring the depth of Bach's passion for writing cantatas, and how skillfully he was able to interpet his vision of the words into music.
		Wolff's small digressions notwithstanding, this book is truly one every lover of Bach should keep in his library.
		Christolph Wolff is clearly a man who understands the life and times of Bach in great detail but I would have preferred to see more focus on the qualitative aspects of Bachs music.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393322564 (2314 words)

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		Although Wolff's writing style is very readable, it might be a good idea to thoroughly study the Appendix and the Table of Contents of this book before venturing into reading.
		Wolff relies on original documents, early records such as the Necrologue (started by Bach, completed by his son C.P.E. Bach and Agricola), Forkel's biography of 1802, still relevant findings of Spitta and later writers, however, also on his own research of several decades, including his 1999 discovery of the Bach family documents in Kiew.
		As a serious musicologist Wolff concentrates--of course!--mainly on the history of Bach's musical development, and in doing so, the biographical-anecdotal is only referred to in such a manner as it, first of all, can be considered reliable and, secondly, is relevant.
	raptusassociation.org /bachbiographie_e.html (576 words)

	Harvard University Press/Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wolff reveals a composer devoted to an ambitious and highly individual creative approach, one characterized by constant self-criticism and self-challenge, the absorption of new skills and techniques, and the rethinking of riches from the musical past.
		All readers will find especially interesting those essays in which Wolff elaborates on his celebrated discoveries of previously unknown works: notably the fourteen "Goldberg" canons and a collection of thirty-three chorale preludes.
		Representing twenty-five years of scholarship, these essays--half of which appear here in English for the first time--have established Christoph Wolff as one of the world's preeminent authorities on J. Bach.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/WOLBAC.html (339 words)

	broadcasts.iu.edu
		Christoph Wolff, a preeminent scholar of J.S. Bach, lectured at the IU School of Music in honor of the 250th anniversary of Bach's death.
		Wolff is the William Powell Mason Professor of Music and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
		The author of several books on Bach, Wolff was recently selected as the first American to head the Bach Archive in the composer's home city of Leipzig, Germany.
	broadcast.iu.edu /lectures/bach (228 words)

	Christoph Wolff
		CHRISTOPH WOLFF is Adams University Professor at Harvard University.
		Christoph Wolff, born Solingen (Germany), May 24, 1940
		"Bach Family; (1) Johann Bach; (2) Johann Christoph Bach; (3) Johann Michael Bach; (4) Johann Nicolaus Bach; (5) Johann Bernhard Bach; (6) Johann Ludwig Bach; (7) Johann Sebastian Bach; (13) Johann Michael Bach; (14) Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed.
	www.music.fas.harvard.edu /faculty/wolff.html (5950 words)

	Bach Christoph Johann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Johann Christoph * Johann Christoph Friedrich * Johann Ernst (of Eisenach) * Johann Ernst (of Arnstadt) * Johann...
		Christoph Wolff, said the work, written when Bach was 28,...
		1642-1703 Bach Johann Christoph 1644-1682 Stradella Alessandro 1644-1685 Albertini Ignazio...
	www.mocde.com /search/bach-christoph-johann.html (958 words)

	Ton Koopman Complete Cantatas Vol. 14
		Following intensive training in Switzerland, she was immediately hired in 1993 by the Opernhaus Zurich Opera Studio for two years.
		Christoph Prégardien began singing at an early age with the church choir from his home town of Limburg, Germany.
		However, the genre with which Christoph Prégardien is perhaps most popularly associated is solo song, particularly the German Romantic Lied.
	www.tonkoopman.nl /cantvol14.htm (4209 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician - dragonflycds.com Product Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wolff certainly has done the research and then written a passionate account of this "learned musician" for the ages.
		Among the fine qualities of this biography is a clear, concise writing style with erudite thinking demonstrated sorting out the historical sources surrounding Bach's life.
		Cristoph Wolff has written a thoroughly satisfying and extraordinarily comprehensive summary of Bach's professional and personal lives.
	www.dragonflycds.com /reviews/asinsearch_0393322564.html (262 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
		Opening with a 1737 attack by a critic who labeled Bach a pedant who spoiled the natural beauty of his creations with "an excess of art," Christoph Wolff cogently compares the German composer to English scientist Isaac Newton.
		While Wolff conscientiously covers the basics of Bach's life, including his two marriages and the musical achievements of his gifted family, the author's primary focus is on his performing (Bach was an unrivaled organist) and composing.
		From the Goldberg Variations through the Brandenburg Concertos to Art of the Fugue, Wolff carefully analyzes Bach's innovations in harmony and counterpoint, placing them in the context of European musical and social history rendered in nicely atmospheric detail.
	www.coolteenbooks.com /c/Classical_Music/Johann_Sebastian_Bach_The_Learned_Musician_0393322564.htm (409 words)

	Biblio: Johann Sebastian Bach by Wolff- Christoph: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wolff suggests new sets of biographical connections, convincingly speculates in the face of meager evidence and scrupulously accumulates the details of daily life.
		By an auspicious coincidence, Sebastian Nagel, town piper of Gotha and friend of Johann Ambrosius Bach, happened to be in Eisenach on the third weekend in March 1685.
		Wolff's book is...important regarding the facts and details of Johann Sebastian's life and times.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/21257055.html (765 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 92039076
		Publisher description for Mozart's Requiem : historical and analytical studies, documents, score / Christoph Wolff ; translated by Mary Whittall, with revisions and additions by the author.
		Wolff summarizes the current state of research on the subject, provides new perspectives on Mozart's conception of the whole work, and surveys his contributions to the movements composed posthumously by his assistant, Sussmayr.
		The book concludes with a complete edition of the work that is at the center of Wolff's study, the authentic score of the Requiem--Mozart's fragment--supplemented by crucial excerpts from Sussmayr's 1792 Requiem completion.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/ucal041/92039076.html (283 words)

	Long-lost estate of J.S. Bach's son discovered in Kyiv (08/15/99)
		Wolff, Dr. Grimsted and Barbara Wolff, music cataloguer of Harvard's Houghton Library, identified and examined the Sing-Akademie collection in the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine in Kyiv.
		The Berlin Sing-Akademie, founded in 1791 by Carl Friedrich Fasch (a colleague and friend of the younger Bach) and directed from 1800 to 1832 by Carl Friedrich Zelter, presented a celebrated performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1829 under the direction of Zelter's pupil, the young Felix Mendelssohn.
		The project will also be closely coordinated with the Sing-Akademie of Berlin, one of Germany's oldest continuing performing organizations, and there is hope that the priceless musical sources will eventually be returned to their original home.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1999/339903.shtml (731 words)

	Markus-Passion BWV 247 - conducted by Ton Koopman
		Wolff is a scholar, historian, and musicologist that has specialized in J.S. Bach and the Bach family for some time now.
		I also think that Christoph Wolff was the chairman of that conference, which will have prevented him from commenting on it anyway.
		Christoph Wolff being the chairman evidently tried to stay as neutral as he could, calling Ton Koopman his 'friend'.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Vocal/BWV247-Koopman.htm (10699 words)

	THE AMERICAN BACH SOCIETY
		Wolff will serve as project director for the Neue Bach-Ausgabe (to be completed within the next five years), and two deputies, Dr. Peter Wollny and Dr.
		Wolff’s vision for the Bach Museum is that it will adopt more attractive, imaginative, and educational formats in its exhibitions.
		Christoph Wolff has shown that Bach’s gatherings of his collections Das Wohltemperirte Clavier, the Aufrichtige Anleitung and the Orgebüchlein were prompted by the need to show the Leipzig authorities that, despite the lack of a university degree, he could adduce impressive pedagogical credentials (Johann Sebastian Bach, The Learned Musician, 225ff.).
	www.americanbachsociety.org /Newsletters/NewsletterBody01Spr.html (5730 words)

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