Michael Marissen
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Michael Marissen (born July 31, 1960, St. Thomas, Ontario) is a professor of music at Swarthmore College. Marissen studied music history at Calvin College and received his PhD from Brandeis University. He has guest taught at Oberlin and Princeton University. Marissen was Chair of the Swarthmore College Department of Music and Dance, and Vice-President of the American Bach Society.
Marissen's books include The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (Princeton, 1995), Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion: With an Annotated Literal Translation of the Libretto (Oxford, 1998), and, with Daniel R. Melamed, An Introduction to Bach Studies (Oxford, 1998). He is also the editor of Creative Responses to Bach from Mozart to Hindemith (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). His current projects include a book entitled Bach on High Christology and the Infancy Narratives in Luke and Matthew, and a monograph entitled, Handel's Messiah and Christian Triumphalism.
