… studied musicology and philosophy at the University of Vienna and attained his doctorate in 2016. His research interests include aesthetics, musical criticism, the relations between musicology and art history, and the history of science and musicology in particular.
At the ACDH-CH, Alexander Wilfing is part of the research unit Musicology. From 2014 to 2021, he has been part of several research projects on the historical contexts of Hanslick’s aesthetics. From 2021 to 2023 he oversaw a project on the institutional establishing of musicology as an academic discipline in 19th-century Vienna, located in Frankfurt, Brno, and Vienna. He is currently leading a FWF-funded project on Hanslick’s criticism and its complex relation to his aesthetics and scholarly writings (2022–2025), conducted in Vienna, Salzburg, and at Stanford University. Since 2018, he is editor of Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies.
Publications
- Wilfing, Alexander (2024) Nineteenth-Century Music Criticism. In: Trippett, David (Hrsg.), Wagner in Context; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, S. 390-398.
- Wilfing, Alexander; Luis Andrés, Mecedes de (2024) Alexander Wilfing, Walking in the Steps of Eduard Hanslick. sonograma.
- Wilfing, Alexander; Sharif, Malik (2023) Musicologica Austriaca: Hintergründe, Entwicklung und Schwerpunkte der Zeitschrift der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft. Die Musikforschung, Bd. 76 (4), S. 393–409.
- Strumbl, Melanie; Papadopoulou, Vasiliki; Wilfing, Alexander (Hrsg.) (2023) "Visualizing Music Histories? The 1892 International Exhibition of Music and Drama and Beyond", special issue von "Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies". .
- Wilfing, Alexander; Bamer, Katharina; Pfiel, Anna-Maria; Elsner, Daniel (2023) Eduard Hanslick, Schriften für die "Neue Freie Presse", 1864–1904 [digital edition, including TEI markup; 232 items as of February 7, 2024].
- Celestini, Federico; Papadopoulou, Vasiliki; Wilfing, Alexander (Hrsg.) (2023) "Austrian Music Studies: Topics, Perspectives, Concepts", special issue von "Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies". .
Lectures
Wilfing, Alexander (12.04.2024) Kultur, Politik und ästhetischer Schulstreit: Bruckner und Hanslick im Kontext der Wiener Musikkritik. Vortrag bei: 200 Jahre Bruckner – 100 Jahre Bruckner-Forschung/AUSTRIA <https://www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veranstaltung/200-jahre-bruckner-100-jahre-bruckner-forschung>.
Wilfing, Alexander (01.03.2024) Eduard Hanslick’s Criticism between Aesthetics, Journalism, and Scholarship: “Hanslick Online”. Vortrag bei: SAB Meeting des ACDH-CH (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Wilfing, Alexander (06.11.2023) What is Musikwissenschaft? The Origins, Context, and Composition of German-Language Musicology. Vortrag bei: Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology, Stanford/UNITED STATES <https://events.stanford.edu/event/ron_alexander_memorial_lectures_in_musicology_alexander_wilfing>.
Wilfing, Alexander (26.06.2023) The Strange Case of German-Language Musicology: Origins and Byways of Academic Musical Research, 1870–1945. Vortrag bei: Vossius Research Seminar, Amsterdam/NETHERLANDS <https://vossius.uva.nl/content/events/2023/06/vossius-seminar-alexander-wilfing-and-james-kennaway.html?origin=H3GhPrctSceEUjmMjbkR4A>.
Wilfing, Alexander; Stoxreiter, Daniel; Wilfing-Albrecht, Meike (30.05.2023) Hanslick Online: Edition, Features, Zukunft. Vortrag bei: „Research Lunch“ Reihe des Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Wien/AUSTRIA.
Wilfing, Alexander (22.04.2023) Gegenkonzepte zu Adlers Modell der Musikforschung. Vortrag bei: Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Musikwissenschaft(en), Wien/AUSTRIA.