Christoph Wolff
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CHRISTOPH WOLFF is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA and Visiting Professor at the Juilliard School in New York. Born and educated in Germany, he 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 the Dr. Phil. in 1966. He taught the history of music at Erlangen, Toronto, Columbia, and Princeton Universities before joining the Harvard faculty in 1976. At Harvard he served as Chair of the Music Department (1980-88, 90-91), Acting Director of the University Library (1991-92), and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1992-2000). He served as Chair of the Academy for Mozart Research Salzburg, 1996–2006, Director of the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig, 2001–13 and President of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, 2004–14.

Recipient of the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association in London (1978), the Humboldt Research Award (1996), the Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig (2021), an honorary professorship at the University of Freiburg, and several honorary degrees, he is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and a member of the Orden Pour le mérite. He has been awarded the Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, honorary membership by the American Musicological Society, the American Bach Society, and the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg.

He was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in biography for "Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician" (New York, 2000), which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best musicological book published in 2000. In 2013 he received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for "Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791" (New York, 2012).
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