Christoph Wolff

Christoph Wolff ( born May 24, 1940 in Solingen ) is a German musicologist.

Life

His father was the Old Testament scholar Hans Walter Wolff, his mother the daughter of a factory in Wuppertal Annemarie Halstenbach. His brother is the philosopher Michael Wolff.

He is director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig and teaches at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as an honorary professor at the Albert- Ludwigs- University in Freiburg im Breisgau.

He is best known for his works on music, life and times of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was involved in the retrieval of the music archive of the Sing- Akademie zu Berlin in Kiev in 1999, which was missing since the end of World War II and 2001, the owner could be returned back in Berlin.

Since 2004 he is the successor of Harald Heckmann Chairman of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales ( RISM ).

Awards

1992 Wolff was awarded the State Prize of North Rhine- Westphalia. 2005 Honorary doctorates from the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar and the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena he was awarded. In 2006 he received the first winner of the newly established Bach Prize of the Royal Academy of Music in London. On February 19, 2014, he received the Medal of Honor of the City of Leipzig.

Publications

• Mozart's Requiem. History, music, documents. With study score. 4 corr. Edition. Barenreiter, Kassel, 1991, ISBN 3-7618-1242-6.
• Publisher together with Reinhold Brinkmann: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States of America. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1999, ISBN 0-520-21413-7.
• Johann Sebastian Bach. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000; 4th edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-16739-5.
• Before the door of my happiness. Mozart in the service of the emperor (1788-1791), translated by Matthias Müller. Barenreiter, Kassel, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7618-2297-7.
• Autograph with commentary by Christoph Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor BWV 232 Sanctus in D major ( 1724) BWV 232 III. Barenreiter Verlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-7618-1578-6.