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.
"A monumental work that must find its way into the library of every
musician and every dedicated lover of music."
*Isaac Stern*
"It's unlikely that anyone will fashion a finer tribute to [Bach's]
genius."
*Los Angeles Times Book Review*
"A magisterial biographical portrait…necessarily learned, but also
user-friendly, helpful and entertainingly informative."
*Chicago Tribune*
"Likely to be the standard one-volume Bach biography for some time
to come."
*New York Review of Books*
"A work of clarity worthy of its subject and his music."
*Wall Street Journal*
"Undoubtedly the most important Bach biography since Phillipp
Spitta's life written over a century ago."
*The New Republic*
A leading Bach scholar, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, offers a comprehensive biography in time for the 250th anniversary of Bach's death. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
"A monumental work that must find its way into the library of every
musician and every dedicated lover of music." -- Isaac Stern
"It's unlikely that anyone will fashion a finer tribute to [Bach's]
genius." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A magisterial biographical portrait...necessarily learned, but
also user-friendly, helpful and entertainingly informative." --
Chicago Tribune
"Likely to be the standard one-volume Bach biography for some time
to come." -- New York Review of Books
"A work of clarity worthy of its subject and his music." -- Wall
Street Journal
"Undoubtedly the most important Bach biography since Phillipp
Spitta's life written over a century ago." -- The New Republic
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