Christian Wolff
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American composer and classicist (born 1934)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1679
- Died
- 1754
- Works
- 167
Top works
- Vernünfftige gedancken von der menschen thun und lassen
- Philosophia rationalis
- Christian Wolff
- Recueil de nouvelles pieces philosophiques
- Le philosophe-roi et le roi-philosophe ; La théorie des affaires publiques
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1934-03-08
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,147
- Total plays
- 60,092
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Christian Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music. Wolff was born in Nice in France of German parentage. His family moved to the United States in 1941, and he became an American citizen in 1946. He studied classics at Harvard University (he is a specialist in the work of Euripides) and upon graduating took up a teaching post there which he kept until 1970 when he began to teach classics, comparative literature, and music at Dartmouth College until his
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,569x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,889x
- A new criterion for assessing discriminant validity in variance-based structural equation modeling
· 2014 · cited 30,364x
- The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 29,226x
- Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision
· 2016 · cited 22,096x
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Quotes
- “Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christian
- Family name
- Wolff
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Nice
- Occupation
- classical scholar
- Educated at
- University of Florence
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Movement
- 20th-century classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Tzadik Records
- Image
- Christian Wolff prepared piano performance 2007 Feb.jpg
- Work location
- Boston
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- member of
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- date of birth
- 1934-03-08
- Commons category
- Christian Wolff (composer)
- has works in the collection
- ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
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