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• Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2001

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A monumental work that must find its way into the library of every musician and every dedicated lover of music. -- Isaac Stern It's unlikely that anyone will fashion a finer tribute to [Bach's] genius. A magisterial biographical portrait...necessarily learned, but also user-friendly, helpful and entertainingly informative. Likely to be the standard one-volume Bach biography for some time to come. A work of clarity worthy of its subject and his music. Undoubtedly the most important Bach biography since Phillipp Spitta's life written over a century ago.

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Christoph Wolff is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught from 1976 to 2012. A former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany, he is the author of numerous works of music history including Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791, winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Wolff lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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