… 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. 2023. Eduard Hanslick, Censur und Kunst-Kritik. Felix Wörner and Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie. Hartmut Wald-Fuhrmann Grimm Melanie Wörner. Musikästhetik in Europa und Nordamerika. Lexikon Schriften Über Musik. Kassel/Berlin: Bärenreiter/Metzler: 314-316.
- Landerer, Christoph, and Alexander Wilfing. 2023. Eduard Hanslick, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen. Ein Beitrag zur Revision der Ästhetik der Tonkunst. Felix Wörner and Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie. Hartmut Wald-Fuhrmann Grimm Melanie Wörner. Musikästhetik in Europa und Nordamerika. Lexikon Schriften Über Musik. Kassel/Berlin: Bärenreiter/Metzler: 316-319.
- Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine, Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, and Alexander Wilfing, eds. 2022. "Production Archives 02: Production Contexts", special collection der "Open Library of Humanities". doi:10.16995/olh.collection.454.
- Wilfing, Alexander, and Miklós Veszprémi. 2022. Gurney, Edmund. Laurenz Lütteken. MGG Online.
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2022. Aesthetics, Education, Liberalism: Eduard Hanslick’s "Vom Musikalisch-Schönen" (1854) and Its Socio-Political Contexts. In Music, Arts and Politics: Revolutions and Restorations in Europe and Croatia, 1815–1860: On the Occasion of 200th Anniversary of Vatroslav Lisinski and 160th Anniversary of the Death of Ban Josip Jelačić, eds. S. Tuksar, Katalinić, V., Babić, P., and Ries, S., 565–578. Musicological Proceedings 23. Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2021. Meaning and Value in Romantic Musical Aesthetics. In The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism, ed. B. Taylor, 183-198. Cambridge Companions To Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108647342.013.