Christoph Wolff

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Christoph Wolff in September 2015 in the Gewandhaus Leipzig

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

Life

Christoph Wolff's father was the theology professor ( Old Testament ) Hans Walter Wolff , his mother the Wuppertal factory owner's daughter Annemarie Halstenbach. His brother is the philosopher Michael Wolff .

Wolff studied church music and musicology in Berlin , Freiburg and Erlangen and received his doctorate in 1966 for Dr. phil. (Subject: The stile antico in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Studies on Bach's late work ). After teaching positions in Erlangen (1963–1968), Toronto (1968–1970), New York (1970–1976) and Princeton (1973, 1975), he was appointed to Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusetts in 1976 . Wolff held the chair of music in Cambridge from 1980 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1991, and from 1991 to 1992 he was chairman of the university library there. In addition to his work in Cambridge, he is an honorary professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau . From 2001 to 2013 he was director of the Leipzig Bach Archive .

He is known, among other things, for his works on the music, life and time of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach . He was involved in the retrieval of the music archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin in Kiev in 1999, which had been missing since the end of the Second World War and was returned to the owner in Berlin in 2001.

Since 2004 he has succeeded Harald Heckmann as President of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM).

He is a member of the board of trustees of forum thomanum Leipzig eV

Honors, prizes and memberships (selection)

Publications (selection)

Books :

  • The stile antico in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Studies on Bach's late work (archive for musicology, supplements). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968 .
  • Mozart's Requiem. History, music, documents. With study score. 4. corr. Edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1991, ISBN 3-7618-1242-6 .
  • with Reinhold Brinkmann (Ed.): Driven into Paradise - 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. 5th edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-596-16739-5 .
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Mass in B minor (= Bärenreiter work introduction ). Bärenreiter, Kassel, 2nd edition 2014. ISBN 978-3-7618-1578-6 .
  • At the gate of my happiness. Mozart in the service of the emperor (1788–1791) . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7618-2277-7 .
  • Autograph with a commentary by Christoph Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor BWV 232 with Sanctus in D major (1724) BWV 232 III. Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-7618-1578-6 .

Essays :

  • A henchman's hand . In: Albrecht Dümling, Peter Girth (ed.): Degenerate Music. An annotated reconstruction of the 1938 exhibition in Düsseldorf . dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-924166-29-3 . About the musicologist Wolfgang Boetticher and his role in the Third Reich .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trustees , www.forum-thomanum.de, accessed on 14 November 2016th
  2. ↑ Member History: Christoph Wolff. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 1, 2019 (with biographical notes).
  3. ↑ the IDBG site dieterich-buxtehude.org
  4. ^ Ceremony for the awarding of the medal of honor to the director of the Leipzig Bach Archive Foundation , website of the City of Leipzig, February 14, 2014, accessed on March 1, 2014.
  5. ↑ Pour le Mérite , accessed November 24, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Christoph Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen