Dr. Alexander Wilfing
Research Focus
- Methodology of Musicology
- Musical aesthetics
- Musical criticism
- Music and emotion
- Austrian Studies
Vita
Academic Eduacation
| 2010–2016 | Doctorate at the University of Vienna (Eduard Hanslick’s Reception in English-Language Discourse) |
| 2004–2010 | Magister Artium in Musicology and Philosophy at the University of Vienna |
Career
| 2021–2023 | Principal Investigator at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Masaryk University, and the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage |
| 2017–2021 | Postdoc researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History of Art and Musicology and Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage |
| 2017 | Postdoc-Track-Program by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and part-time lecturer (Department of Musicology, University of Vienna) |
| 2014–2017 | Doctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History of Art and Musicology |
| 2012–2013 | part-time lecturer (Department of Musicology, University of Vienna) |
Publications
Monographs
Wilfing, A. (2019). Re-Reading Hanslick’s Aesthetics: Die Rezeption Eduard Hanslicks im englischen Sprachraum und ihre diskursiven Grundlagen. Wien: Hollitzer. https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1277.
Edited Books
Wilfing, A., Landerer C. & Wilfing-Albrecht, M. (Eds.) (2020). Hanslick im Kontext: Perspektiven auf die Ästhetik, Musikkritik und das historische Umfeld von Eduard Hanslick / Hanslick in Context: Perspectives on the Aesthetics, Musical Criticism, and Historical Setting of Eduard Hanslick. Wien: Hollitzer.
Articles and Chapters (selected)
Wilfing, A. (2020). Hanslick’s Kantianism? Johann Heinrich Dambeck, Christian Friedrich Michaelis, and Hans Georg Nägeli. In A. Wilfing, C. Landerer, & M. Wilfing-Albrecht (Eds.), Hanslickim Kontext: Perspektiven auf die Ästhetik, Musikkritik und das historische Umfeld von Eduard Hanslick / Hanslick in Context: Perspectives on the Aesthetics, Musical Criticism, and Historical Setting of Eduard Hanslick (pp. 61–86). Wien: Hollitzer.
Wilfing, A. (2019). “Absolute” Aesthetics in Context: The Sociopolitical Fundamentals of Eduard Hanslick’s Scholarly Activities; Towards a Cultural Turn in Hanslick Scholarship. International Review for the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 50 (1–2), 179–90.
Wilfing, A. & Landerer, C. (2019). Eduard Hanslick. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://www.iep.utm.edu/hanslick/.
Wilfing, A. (2018). Autonomania und Ideology of Autonomy: Die Autonomie-Diskussion in der analytischen Musikästhetik und der New Musicology. In N. Urbanek & M. Wald-Fuhrmann (Eds.), Von der Autonomie des Klangs zur Heteronomie der Musik: Musikwissenschaftliche Antworten auf Musikphilosophie (pp. 179–210). Stuttgart: Metzler.
Landerer, C. & Wilfing, A. (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. http://www.musau.org/parts/neue-article-page/view/51.
Wilfing, A. (2018). Hanslick, Kant, and the Origins of Vom Musikalisch-Schönen. Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies. http://www.musau.org/parts/neue-article-page/view/47.
Wilfing, A. & Landerer, C. (2017). Eduard Hanslick und der Hegelianismus. Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 62 (2), 307–328. https://doi.org/10.28937/1000108018.
Wilfing, A. (2016). Hermeneutik, Interpretation, Rezeption: Friedenstag von Richard Strauss – Ein nazistisches Bühnenstück? In G. Gruber & O. Panagl (Eds.), Mythos – Metamorphosen – Metaphysik (pp. 167–88). Heidelberg: Winter.
Wilfing, A. (2016). Tonally Moving Forms: Peter Kivy and Eduard Hanslick’s “Enhanced Formalism.” Principia:prismakoncepcyjne z filozofii i socjologii teoretycznej 63, 5–35. http://www.ejournals.eu/Principia/2016/Tom-63-2016/art/9686/.
Awards & Grants
Awards & Grants (selected)
| 2021–2023 | Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (J4529) |
| 2020 | Advisory board member of the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research (Surrey, ongoing) |
| 2020 | Participant in the Mentoring Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 2018 | editor-in-chief of Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies (ongoing) |
| 2018 | Award for the best dissertation of 2015 and 2016 by the “Verein der Freunde des Instituts für Musikwissenschaft der Universität Wien” |
| 2017 | Postdoc-Track-Program by the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 2014 | Doctoral scholarship by the University of Vienna |
Projects
- Guest Project:Creating an Academic Discipline: Eduard Hanslick, Guido Adler, and the Establishment of Musicological Methodology in 19th-Century Vienna
The current project explores the synchronous establishing of musicology and art history as academic disciplines at the University of Vienna as part of an education reform conducted by Leopold, Count von Thun und Hohenstein (1811–1888). ...