Lectures Related to Hanslick
April 07, 2025
Invited Lectures
- 2025/07. Wilfing, Alexander. “Die dynamische Dimension von Eduard Hanslicks Schriften: Hanslick Online,” Colloquium on current issues in musical research, department for musicology Weimar-Jena, Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar
- 2025/05. Wilfing, Alexander. “Eduard Hanslick’s On the Musically Beautiful: Origins, Evolution, Structure,” Permanent Seminar on Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Center for Humanistic Studies, Universidade do Minho, Braga.
- 2024/11. Wilfing, Alexander. “Wissenschaft, Musikwissenschaft, Musikgeschichtswissenschaft: Wiener Konzepte der Musikforschung, 1854–1918,” conference “Musicology’s Modernist Moment, 1918–1933: Musikwissenschaft modern, 1918–1933,” Vienna (keynote lecture).
- 2024/08. Wilfing, Alexander. “An Organicist ‘Aesthetics of the Theme’: Bruckner, Hanslick, and Viennese Music Criticism (1865–1902),” international conference “Bruckner Now and Then / Bruckner jetzt und damals,” St. Florian.
- 2024/04. Wilfing, Alexander. “Kultur, Politik und ästhetischer Schulstreit: Bruckner und Hanslick im Kontext der Wiener Musikkritik,” international conference “200 Jahre Bruckner—100 Jahre Bruckner-Forschung,” Vienna.
- 2023/10. Wilfing, Alexander. “What is Musikwissenschaft? The Origins, Context, and Composition of German-Language Musicology,” Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology, Stanford.
- 2023/06. Wilfing, Alexander. “The Strange Case of German-Language Musicology: Origins and Byways of Academic Musical Research, 1870–1945,” Research Seminar, Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences, Amsterdam.
- 2022/02. Wilfing, Alexander. “In Search of Identity: The Histories and Synergies of Musicology and Art History,” Research Seminar, Research Group Histories of Music, Mind, and Body, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt a.M.
- 2016/11. Wilfing, Alexander. “Spezialästhetik, Grenzziehung, Methodologie: Eduard Hanslick und August Wilhelm Ambros im ‚österreichischen‘ Ästhetikdiskurs um 1850,” conference “August Wilhelm Ambros: Wege seiner Musikkritik, -ästhetik und -historiographie,” Vienna.
Conference Presentations
- 2025/03 Wilfing, Alexander. “The Self-Reflecting Critic-Composer,” international workshop “Composer-Critics and Their Music: Reflections on Minds of the Nineteenth Century,” Cambridge
- 2024/09. Wilfing, Alexander. “‘Whom I want to destroy, I will destroy!’ Bruckner, Hanslick, and Musical Criticism in 19th-Century Vienna,” 4th International Conference, Institute for Austrian and German Music Research, Durham.
- 2024/07. Wilfing, Alexander. “Hanslick’s Concept(s) of Beauty in Relation to History,” 9th Biennial Music and Philosophy Conference, London.
- 2024/07. Wilfing, Alexander. “Reconsidering the Origins of Musikwissenschaft in German-Language Academia,” Second Biennial International Conference of Music and the University, Surrey.
- 2023/09. Wilfing, Alexander. Introduction to “Der Kritiker als Komponist: Eduard Hanslicks Liedschaffen,” lecture recital, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna.
- 2022/11. Wilfing, Alexander and Anja Bunzel. “‘Známý videňský a již zemřelý professor a aesthetik’: Eduard Hanslick’s Double Lives,” conference Učenecká korespondence a praxe vícejazyčnosti mezi republikou učenců a počátky moderní národní společnosti, Prag.
- 2022/09. Wilfing, Alexander. “Politik, Kultur, Philosophie: Frühe Weichenstellungen der Musikwissenschaft und ihre Folgen,” Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Berlin (special session, “Listening from (No-)Where? Situierung/Positionierung im Hören, Denken und Analysieren von/über Musik”).
- 2021/09. Wilfing, Alexander. “How to Establish an Academic Discipline: The Multi-Ethnic Makeup of 19th-Century Austria, Habsburg Positivism, and the (Political) Creation of Musicology and Art History,” Inaugural Conference of the Institute for Austrian and German Music Research, Surrey (online).
- 2021/09. Wilfing, Alexander. “Reframing the Beginnings of Academic Musicology,” conference Narrating Musicology: Fachgeschichte(n) der Musikwissenschaft, Bern.
- 2020/10. Wilfing, Alexander. “Hanslick’s Concept(s) of Beauty in Relation to History,” 18th Annual Society for Musicology in Ireland Plenary Conference, Dublin (online).
- 2019/11. Wilfing, Alexander. “Gurney Reading Hanslick?” 85th Annual Meeting der American Musicological Society, Boston (special session, “The Power of Sound: Excavating the Interdisciplinarity of Edmund Gurney’s Philosophy of Music”).
- 2019/10. Wilfing, Alexander. “Aesthetics, Education, Liberalism: Eduard Hanslick’s Vom Musikalisch-Schönen and its Socio-Political Contexts,” 14th International Musicological and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Croatian Musicological Society, Zagreb.
- 2019/09. Wilfing, Alexander. “Eduard Hanslick and Formalist Musicology: Tone, Score, and Composition in Hanslick’s Aesthetics,” 55th Annual Meeting der Royal Musical Association, Manchester.
- 2019/07. Landerer, Christoph. “‘Schön,’ ‘das Schöne,’ ‘Schönheit’: Hanslick’s Notion(s) of Beauty,” 7th Biennial Music and Philosophy Conference, London (special session, “Hanslick’s Concepts: Meaning, Translation, Reception,“ see events).
- 2019/07. Rothfarb, Lee. “How Do We Understand Hanslick?” 7th Biennial Music and Philosophy Conference, London (special session, “Hanslick’s Concepts: Meaning, Translation, Reception,“ see events).
- 2019/07. Wilfing, Alexander. “The Reception of Hanslick’s Concepts,” 7th Biennial Music and Philosophy Conference, London (special session, “Hanslick’s Concepts: Meaning, Translation, Reception,“ see events).
- 2018/12. Wilfing, Alexander. Participation in panel group, “Leerstellen: Über methodische Problematiken der editorischen Praxis,” Annual Meeting of the Austrian Musicological Society, Musik Quellen Denken: Prozesse der Re- und De-Konstruktion in Wissenschaft und Praxis, Vienna.
- 2018/07. Wilfing, Alexander. “Historicism, Modernity, and the ‘Musically Beautiful’: Re-Reading Eduard Hanslick’s Aesthetics,” 20th Biennial International Conference on 19th-Century Music, Huddersfield.
- 2017/11. Wilfing, Alexander. “Constructing Antagonists: Eduard Hanslick, Heinrich Schenker, and the New Musicology,” 83rd Annual Meeting der American Musicological Society, Rochester.
- 2016/09. Bonds, Mark Evan. “Hanslick and Leibniz,” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Grey, Thomas. “Re-Thinking Beauty in the ‘Musically Beautiful,’” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Grimes, Nicole. “Hanslick, the New Humanism, and the Music of Johannes Brahms,” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Korenjak, Andrea. “Hanslick’s Music Aesthetic Discourse in the Context of Medicine and Psychiatry around 1850,” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Landerer, Christoph and Lee Rothfarb. “Features of the New English Translation of On the Musically Beautiful (Oxford University Press, 2018),” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Pryer, Anthony. “Contextualizing Hanslick’s Musical Responses: The ‘Supplementary’ Beauty of Performance, the Changing Cultures of Human and Musical Expression, and the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of ‘Interpretation,’” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Rothfarb, Lee. “Hanslick’s Hauptsatz: Brahms and Bruckner,” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Stachel, Peter. “Eine komplizierte Beziehung: Eduard Hanslick und Carl Goldmark,” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Štědronská Markéta. “Eduard Hanslick und August Wilhelm Ambros: Zur Geschichte eines musikästhetischen Austauschs,” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Telesko, Werner. “Rudolf von Eitelberger (1817–1885): Wissenschaftliche Exaktheit und habsburgische Kulturpolitik; ein methodischer Grenzgänger und die Anfänge der Kunstgeschichte in Wien,” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Wilfing, Alexander. “Hanslick’s Kantianism?: Johann Heinrich Dambeck, Christian Friedrich Michaelis, and Hans Georg Nägeli,” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2016/09. Zangwill, Nick. “Non-absolute Music,” conference Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context, Vienna (see events).
- 2014/07. Wilfing, Alexander. “Hanslick’s Aesthetics, Kant’s Critique, and Austrian Philosophy: A Long-Overdue Reassessment,” 4th Biennial Music and Philosophy Conference, London.
(Informal) Project Presentations and Round Tables
- 2025/05. Grey, Thomas S. “Challenges to the ‘Musically Beautiful’: Music Drama and the ‘Psychological Turn’ in Later Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics,” book launch event, Online Connections Seminar, European Network for the Philosophy of Music.
- 2025/05. Landerer, Christoph. “Dynamizing On the Musically Beautiful: The Development of Hanslick’s Ideas across Chapters and Editions,” book launch event, Online Connections Seminar, European Network for the Philosophy of Music.
- 2025/05. Wilfing, Alexander. Introduction to “The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick,” book launch event, Online Connections Seminar, European Network for the Philosophy of Music.
- 2025/05. Zangwill, Nick. “Music, Feeling, and Listening: Themes from Chapters 4 and 5 of On the Musically Beautiful,” book launch event, Online Connections Seminar, European Network for the Philosophy of Music.
- 2025/03. Wilfing, Alexander. Roundtable participation “Composer-Critics and Their Music: Reflections on Minds of the Nineteenth Century,” Cambridge.
- 2025/02. “Von der Ästhetik zur Kritik und wieder zurück: ‘Hanslick Online’ und die Hanslick-Forschung,” lecture for the reading group “Composers and Editions” of the ACDH-CH, Vienna.
- 2024/12. Wilfing, Alexander. “Eduard Hanslick’s Criticism between Aesthetics, Journalism, and Scholarship: ‘Hanslick Online,’” lecture during an official evaluation procedure of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna.
- 2024/09. Wilfing, Alexander, Katharina Bamer, and Anna-Maria Pfiel. Presentation of “Hanslick Online: Fortschritt und Entwicklung,” Research Lunch Series, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna.
- 2024/05. Wilfing, Alexander. Presentation of “Hanslick Online: Traktat und Kritiken” at the jour fixe of the Department of Musicology and Dance Studies, Paris Lodron University, Salzburg.
- 2024/03. Wilfing, Alexander. “Eduard Hanslick’s Criticism between Aesthetics, Journalism, and Scholarship: ‘Hanslick Online,’” lecture for the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna.
- 2023/05. Wilfing, Alexander, Daniel Elsner, and Meike Wilfing Albrecht. Presentation of “Hanslick Online: Edition, Features, Zukunft,” Research Lunch Series, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna.
- 2022/05. Wilfing, Alexander. Presentation of the project outline of “In Search of Identity: The Histories and Synergies of Musicology and Art History,” Research Seminar, Centre for Modern Art and Theory, Brno.
- 2022/04. Wilfing, Alexander. Presentation of the project outline of “In Search of Identity: The Histories and Synergies of Musicology and Art History,” Zoombar, Institute of Austrian and German Music Research, Surrey (online).
- 2021/12. Wilfing, Alexander. Presentation of the project “Creating an Academic Discipline” and the project outline of “In Search of Identity: The Histories and Synergies of Musicology and Art History,” Research Seminar, Department of Music, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt a.M.
- 2021/02. Wilfing, Alexander. Presentation of “Hanslick Online,” Research Lunch Series, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna (online).
- 2019/06. Wilfing, Alexander. Presentation of my monograph Re-Reading Hanslick’s Aesthetics: Die Rezeption Eduard Hanslicks im englischen Sprachraum und ihre diskursiven Grundlagen, Open Door Day, Department of Musicology, University of Vienna.
- 2018/06. Wilfing, Alexander. Roundtable participation, “Musik- und Theatergeschichte ausgestellt: Wien als Schnittstelle zwischen Transnationalität, Performativität und Institutionalisierung im Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts,” Vienna.
- 2016/03. Wilfing, Alexander. “Eduard Hanslicks Vom Musikalisch-Schönen: Text, Kontext, Rezeption,” Lecture on behalf of an evaluation of the Institute of History of Art and Musicology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
