… 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. From 2018 to 2024, he was editor-in-chief of Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies.
Publications
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2024. Nineteenth-Century Music Criticism. In Wagner in Context, ed. D. Trippett, 390-398. Composers In Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Wilfing, Alexander, and Mecedes de Luis Andrés. 2024. Alexander Wilfing, Walking in the Steps of Eduard Hanslick. sonograma.
- Wilfing, Alexander, and Malik Sharif. 2023. Musicologica Austriaca: Hintergründe, Entwicklung und Schwerpunkte der Zeitschrift der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft. Die Musikforschung 76: 393–409. doi:10.52412/mf.2023.H4.3114.
- Strumbl, Melanie, Vasiliki Papadopoulou, and Alexander Wilfing, eds. 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, Katharina Bamer, Anna-Maria Pfiel, and Daniel Elsner. 2023. Eduard Hanslick, Schriften für die "Neue Freie Presse", 1864–1904 [digital edition, including TEI markup; 280 items as of May 16, 2024].
- Celestini, Federico, Vasiliki Papadopoulou, and Alexander Wilfing, eds. 2023. "Austrian Music Studies: Topics, Perspectives, Concepts", special issue von "Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies".