Dr.

Alexander Wilfing

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(+43 1) 51581 – 3709

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alexander.wilfing(at)oeaw.ac.at

… 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.

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Publications

  • Wilfing, Alexander. 2018. Julian Young, The Philosophies of Richard Wagner (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014). 19th-Century Music Review 15/1: 99–102. doi:10.1017/S1479409817000295.
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  • Wilfing, Alexander, and Christoph Landerer. 2018. Eduard Hanslick und der Hegelianismus. Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 62/2: 307–328. doi:10.28937/1000108018.
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  • Wilfing, Alexander. 2016. Hermeneutik, Interpretation, Rezeption: "Friedenstag" von Richard Strauss – Ein nazistisches Bühnenstück?. In Mythos – Metamorphosen – Metaphysik (Wissenschaft und Kunst 29), eds. G. Gruber and Panagl, O., 167–188. Heidelberg: Winter.
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  • Wilfing, Alexander. 2016. Eduard Hanslick zwischen Deutschem Idealismus und Österreichischem Realismus. Eine Fallstudie zur österreichischen Kant-Rezeption. In Ausgehend von Kant. Wegmarken der Klassischen Deutschen Philosophie (Studien zur Phänomenologie und praktischen Philosophie 38), ed. V. Waibel, 319–342. Würzburg: Ergon.
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  • Wilfing, Alexander. 2016. Eduard Hanslicks Rezeption im englischen Sprachraum. Universität Wien. doi:10.25365/thesis.42919.
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  • Wilfing, Alexander. 2015. Die staatlich erwirkte Kant-Zensur: Von Franz II. bis Graf Thun. In Umwege. Annäherungen an Immanuel Kant in Wien, in Österreich und in Osteuropa, ed. V. Waibel, 32–39. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi:10.14220/9783737004800.33.
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