![]() ![]() Wolff was awarded the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in 2006. His books include Bach: Essays on His Life and Music (1991), Mozart’s Requiem (1994), The New Bach Reader (1998), and J ohann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (2001) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. He has published major studies on Mozart as well as Johann Sebastian Bach, and he rediscovered the vast archives of the Berlin Sing-Akademie in Kiev, which are the basis of his research into music and early bourgeois culture in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Berlin. Wolff taught the history of music at Erlangen, Toronto, Princeton, and Columbia Universities before joining the Harvard faculty, in 1976, as Professor of Music. ![]() Born and educated in Germany, Christoph Wolff studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology, and art history at the Universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and the Music Academy of Freiburg, receiving a performance diploma in 1963 and a PhD in 1966. ![]()
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