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. 2019. Re-Reading Hanslick's Aesthetics: Die Rezeption Eduard Hanslicks im englischen Sprachraum und ihre diskursiven Grundlagen (Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft 49). Wien: Hollitzer.
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  • Wilfing, Alexander. 2018. "Autonomania" und "Ideology of Autonomy": Die Autonomie-Diskussion in der analytischen Musikästhetik und der New Musicology. In Von der Autonomie des Klangs zur Heteronomie der Musik. Musikwissenschaftliche Antworten auf Musikphilosophie (Abhandlungen zur Musikwissenschaft), eds. N. Urbanek and Wald-Fuhrmann, M., 179–210. Stuttgart: Metzler. doi:10.1007/978-3-476-04654-3.
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  • Landerer, Christoph, Alexander Wilfing, and Lee Rothfarb. 2018. Introductory Essay 1: Origins, Publication, and Translation History of the Treatise. In Eduard Hanslick's "On the Musically Beautiful": A New Translation, eds. L. Rothfarb and Landerer, C., xv–xxx. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  • Landerer, Christoph, and Alexander Wilfing. 2018. Eduard Hanslick's "Vom Musikalisch-Schönen": Text, Contexts, and Their Developmental Dimensions; towards a Dynamic View of Hanslick's Aesthetics. Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies.
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  • Wilfing, Alexander. 2018. Tonally Moving Forms – Peter Kivy and Eduard Hanslick's "Enhanced Formalism". Principia: prisma koncepcyjne z filozofii i socjologii teoretycznej 63: 5–35. doi:10.4467/20843887PI.16.001.7640.
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  • Wilfing, Alexander. 2018. Hanslick, Kant, and the Origins of "Vom Musikalisch-Schönen". Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies.
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