… 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. 2015. Kant and German Romanticism in the Eyes of Austrian 19th-Century Writers, transl. by John Jamieson. In Detours: Approaches to Immanuel Kant in Vienna, in Austria, and in Eastern Europe, ed. V. Waibel, 265–268. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi:10.14220/9783737004817.265.
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2015. State Censorship of Kant: From Francis II to Count Thun, transl. by Katharina Walter. In Detours: Approaches to Immanuel Kant in Vienna, in Austria, and in Eastern Europe, ed. V. Waibel, 32–39. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi:10.14220/9783737004817.32.
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2015. The Early Kant Reception in Austria: From Joseph II to Francis II, transl. by Katharina Walter. In Detours: Approaches to Immanuel Kant in Vienna, in Austria, and in Eastern Europe, ed. V. Waibel, 26–32. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi:10.14220/9783737004817.26.
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2015. Kant and "Austrian Philosophy": An Introduction, transl. by Katharina Walter. In Detours: Approaches to Immanuel Kant in Vienna, in Austria, and in Eastern Europe, ed. V. Waibel, 19–26. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi:10.14220/9783737004817.19.
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2015. Kant und die "österreichische Philosophie": Eine Einführung. In Umwege. Annäherungen an Immanuel Kant in Wien, in Österreich und in Osteuropa, ed. V. Waibel, 19–27. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi:10.14220/9783737004800.19.
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2015. Kant und die deutsche Romantik bei österreichischen Schriftstellern des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. In Umwege. Annäherungen an Immanuel Kant in Wien, in Österreich und in Osteuropa, ed. V. Waibel, 275–278. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi:10.14220/9783737004800.275.