Christoph Wolff lecture on Johann Sebastian Bach
TenFourteen
1014 Fifth Avenue
between 82nd and 83th Street, NYC
Bach Virtuosi Festival New York kicks off its 2024 series with a lecture from Christoph Wolff, author and foremost expert on J.S. Bach, about the great composer at TenFourteen, a historic townhouse belonging to the Federal Republic of Germany across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
German musicologist Christoph Wolff is best known for his works on the music, life, and period of Johann Sebastian Bach. Christoph Wolff is an emeritus professor of Harvard University, and was part of the faculty since 1976, and former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 2001 to 2014.
His books include Bach: Essays on His Life and Music (Cambridge, 1991), Mozart’s Requiem (Berkeley, 1994), The New Bach Reader (New York, 1998), Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 (New York, 2000), and Bach’s Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work (W.W. Norton, 2020).