# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christoph-wolff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:28:40.863Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christoph-wolff"
name: "Christoph Wolff"
slug: "christoph-wolff"
description: "Christoph Wolff is a German musicologist. He 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."
tagline: "German-born musicologist (born 1940)"
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gender: "male"
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category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1940-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump