… 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. Die frühe österreichische Kant-Rezeption: Von Joseph II. bis Franz II.. In Umwege. Annäherungen an Immanuel Kant in Wien, in Österreich und in Osteuropa, ed. V. Waibel, 27–32. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi:10.14220/9783737004800.27.
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2015. Richard Klein: Musikphilosophie zur Einführung. Hamburg 2014. H/SOZ/KULT. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften.
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2014. Richard Wagner in Eduard Hanslicks Schriften: Wagnerismus und Wagnerkultus. Wolfgang Fuhrmann and Sedivý, Dominik. Musicologica Austriaca 31/32 (2012/2013). Wien: Praesens: 155–175.
- Landerer, Christoph, and Alexander Wilfing. 2014. Hanslick und der Cultural turn. Musik & Ästhetik 72: 117–121.
- Wilfing-Albrecht, Meike, and Alexander Wilfing. 2014. Musikhistoriographie(n). Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 69/1: 74–75. doi:10.7788/omz-2014-0114.
- Wilfing, Alexander. 2013. Gefühl und Musik bei Arthur Schopenhauer und Eduard Hanslick. Musik & Ästhetik 66: 31–46.