Michael Marissen

Lecturer

MICHAEL MARISSEN is the Daniel Underhill Professor Emeritus of Music at Swarthmore College. His most recent books are Bach Against Modernity (Oxford, 2023) and Bach & God (Oxford, 2016). He has written essays on music and religion for many scholarly journals, including the Harvard Theological Review and Lutheran Quarterly, as well as for many general-audience venues, including the Huffington Post and The New  York Times. His main current project (with coauthor Daniel R. Melamed, Indiana University) is producing translations, with extensive historical annotations, of all the librettos that Bach set to music, available for free on the web at www.BachCantataTexts.org.