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...come from Bach's ability to forces the direction music would take. "Bach could look into the future of music by thinking about his sons, who also were significant contributers to the music of their time. He could look into the future as he could look into the past," Wolff said...
...read music like most children read books, if your family played music together the way others play baseball, if you wanted to grow up to be a musician instead of an astronaut, you could be Johann Sebastian in Bach...or you could be Christoph Wolff, Chairman of the Music Department...
Music was Bach's great love, as music--especially Bach's--is Wolff's. But Bach composed and performed in the eighteenth century, while German-born Wolff, one of the pre-eminent Bach scholars in the country, researches, teaches, and perform in the twentieth...
Music has always been integral to the Wolff clan--his parents and his children play various instruments and his ancestors built pianos. But Wolff continues the tradition in a different vein--as a music historian...
...primarily interested in increasing the understanding of music from a historical period that we have a hard time getting access to. In order to really perform it right, perceive it right, and understand it right, you have to know quite a bit about its historical context," said Wolff...