Rathey (Yale) has published extensively on the music of J. S. Bach... Rathey's works include Bach's Major Vocal Works: Music, Drama, Liturgy and Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio: Music, Theology, Culture.
Markus Rathey is Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History at Yale University. His research focuses on music in the second half of the 17th century, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the Bach family. His books include a study of Bach's Christmas Oratorio and an introduction to Bach's major vocal works. He is past-president of the American Bach Society and associate editor of the Yale Journal of Music and Religion.