Publications

September 17, 2025

Books and Editions

  • 2025–2027. Eduard Hanslick, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen: Ein Beitrag zur Revision der Ästhetik der Tonkunst. Edited by Alexander Wilfing in collaboration with Christoph Landerer and Fernando Sanz-Lázaro. 2nd ed. Vienna: ACDH. Open access edition of all ten editions, 1854–1902, including TEI markup, commentary, automated paragraph collation, modal full-text search, register of subjects, and curated topical access points, https://hanslick.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/toc_t.html.
  • 2025–2026. Dokumente zu Eduard Hanslicks “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”. Edited by Alexander Wilfing in collaboration with Fernando Sanz-Lázaro and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht. Vienna: ACDH, https://hanslick.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/toc_doc.html.
  • 2025. The Music Critic as Composer: The Songs of Eduard Hanslick. Edited by Alexander Wilfing. Klingende Forschung 8 / Tondokumente aus dem Phonogrammarchiv der ÖAW 50. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/produkt/the-music-critic-as-composer-the-songs-of-eduard-hanslick/99201021.
  • 2024–2025. Die Rezensionen zu Eduard Hanslicks “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen” (1854–1857). Edited by Anna-Maria Pfiel and Alexander Wilfing in collaboration with Daniel Elsner and Fernando Sanz-Lázaro. Vienna: ACDH, https://hanslick.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/toc_vms.html.
  • 2024. Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, eds. The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403.
  • 2023–ongoing. Eduard Hanslick, Schriften für die “Neue Freie Presse,” 1864–1904, ed. by Alexander Wilfing in collaboration with Katharina Bamer, Daniel Elsner, Anna-Maria Pfiel, and Fernando Sanz-Lázaro. Vienna: ACDH. Open access edition, including TEI markup (615 items as of October 2025), https://hanslick.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/toc.html.
  • 2023. Eduard Hanslick, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen: Ein Beitrag zur Revision der Ästhetik der Tonkunst, ed. by Alexander Wilfing in collaboration with Meike Wilfing-Albrecht and Daniel Elsner. Vienna: ACDH. Open access edition of all ten editions, 1854–1902, including TEI markup and automated paragraph collation, https://hanslick.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/toc_t.html.
  • 2022–ongoing. Coelsch-Foinser, Sabine, Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, and Alexander Wilfing, eds. “Production Archives 02: Production Contexts.” Special issue, Open Library of Humanities, https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.collection.454.
  • 2020. Wilfing, Alexander, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, eds. 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. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.
  • 2019. Wilfing, Alexander. Re-Reading Hanslick’s Aesthetics: Die Rezeption Eduard Hanslicks im englischen Sprachraum und ihre diskursiven Grundlagen. Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft 49. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvktrwbs. Reviewed by:
  • 2018. Rothfarb, Lee and Christoph Landerer, eds. / trans. Eduard Hanslick’s ‘On the Musically Beautiful’: A New Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by:
  • 2016. Wilfing, Alexander. “Eduard Hanslicks Rezeption im englischen Sprachraum.“ PhD diss, University of Vienna, https://doi.org/10.25365/thesis.42919.

Articles

  • 2025. Wilfing, Alexander. “Hanslick versus Hanslick? Reframing the Relationship between Hanslick’s Aesthetics and Criticism, or: Hanslick’s Aesthetics of the Musical Theme.” In International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 56, no. 1: 57–73, https://dx.doi.org/10.21857/9e31lhznjm.
  • 2025. Bunzel, Anja, Anthony Pryer, and Alexander Wilfing. “Eduard Hanslick: Critic, Theorist, Historian—and Composer.” In The Music Critic as Composer: The Songs of Eduard Hanslick, ed. by Alexander Wilfing. Klingende Forschung 8 / Tondokumente aus dem Phonogrammarchiv der ÖAW 50. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, https://doi.org/10.1553/Eduard_Hanslick.
  • 2023. Wilfing, Alexander. “Musikalische Autonomie und das Gesamtkunstwerk: Eduard Hanslick und Richard Wagner im Dialog mit der idealistischen Musikästhetik.” In “Production Archives 02: Production Contexts,” ed. by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, and Alexander Wilfing. Special issue, Open Library of Humanities, https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.8114.
  • 2019. Wilfing, Alexander. “‘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, no. 1–2: 179–190, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26844664.
  • 2018. Landerer, Christoph and Alexander Wilfing. “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.
  • 2018. Wilfing, Alexander. “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.
  • 2017. Landerer, Christoph und Nick Zangwill. “Hanslick’s Deleted Ending.” British Journal of Aesthetics 57, no. 1: 85–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayw056.
  • 2017. Wilfing, Alexander and Christoph Landerer. “Eduard Hanslick und der Hegelianismus.” Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 62, no. 2: 307–328, https://doi.org/10.28937/1000108018.
  • 2016. Landerer, Christoph and Nick Zangwill. “Contemplating Musical Essence.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 141, no. 2: 483–494, https://doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2016.1216173.
  • 2016. Wilfing, Alexander. “Tonally Moving Forms: Peter Kivy and Eduard Hanslick’s ‘Enhanced Formalism.’” Principia: prisma koncepcyjne z filozofii i socjologii teoretycznej 63: 5–35, https://doi.org/10.4467/20843887PI.16.001.7640.
  • 2014. Wilfing, Alexander. “Richard Wagner in Eduard Hanslicks Schriften: Wagnerismus und Wagnerkultus.” Musicologica Austriaca 31–32: 155–175, http://www.musau.org/oegmw/publikationen/musicologica-austriaca-1977-2013/musicologica-austriaca-3132-20122013/.
  • 2013. Wilfing, Alexander. “Gefühl und Musik bei Arthur Schopenhauer und Eduard Hanslick.” Musik und Ästhetik 66: 31–46, https://www.musikundaesthetik.de/article/99.120205/mu-17-2-31?pid=99.120205 (reviewed by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 17, 2013; published in preparation of the project “Hanslick in Context”).

Chapters

  • 2024. Appelqvist, Hanne. “Hanslick on the Purposiveness of Musical Form.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, 69–97. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-5.
  • 2024. Bonds, Mark Evan. “Robert Zimmermann’s 1854 Review of On the Musically Beautiful: A Translation and Commentary.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, 231–253. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-14.
  • 2024. Gracyk, Theodore. “Hanslick’s Theory of Musical Imagination.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, 179–205. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-11.
  • 2024. Grey, Thomas. “Challenges to the ‘Musically Beautiful’: Music Drama and the ‘Psychological Turn’ in Later Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, 254–283. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-16.
  • 2024. Landerer, Christoph and Alexander Wilfing. “Dynamizing On the Musically Beautiful: The Development of Hanslick’s Ideas across Chapters and Editions.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, 3–34. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-2.
  • 2024. Pryer, Anthony. “A Problematic Legacy: Hanslick’s On the Musically Beautiful and the Status of Performance as Supplementary to Beauty.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, 206–227. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-12.
  • 2024. Rothfarb, Lee. “Taking Hanslick at His Music-Theoretical Word.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, 98–120. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-6.
  • 2024. Rothfarb, Lee, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer. “Preface.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, ix–xx. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-1.
  • 2024. Wilfing, Alexander. “Hanslick’s Concept(s) of Beauty in Relation to History.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, 35–66. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-3.
  • 2024. Wilfing, Alexander. “Nineteenth-Century Music Criticism.” In Wagner in Context, ed. by David Trippett, 390–398. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108871150.040.
  • 2024. Zangwill, Nick and Alexander Wilfing. “Music, Feeling, and Listening: Themes from Chapters 4 and 5 of On the Musically Beautiful.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, 123–151. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-8.
  • 2024. Zbikowski, Lawrence. “Hanslick’s Emotional Legacy.” In The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. by Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, and Christoph Landerer, 152–176. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016403-9.
  • 2021. Wilfing, Alexander. “Aesthetics, Education, Liberalism: Eduard Hanslick’s Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (1854) and its Socio-Political Contexts.” In Music, Arts, and Politics: Revolutions and Restorations in Europe and Croatia, 1815–1860; on the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of Vatroslav Lisinski and 160th Anniversary of the Death of Ban Josip Jelačić, ed. by Stanislav Tuksar, 565–578. Musicological Proceedings 23. Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts / Croatian Musicological Society.
  • 2021. Wilfing, Alexander. “Meaning and Value in Romantic Musical Aesthetics.” In The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism, ed. by Benedict Taylor, 183–198. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108647342.013.
  • 2021. Wilfing, Alexander. “Spezialästhetik, Grenzziehung, Methodologie: August Wilhelm Ambros und Eduard Hanslick im österreichischen Ästhetikdiskurs um 1850.” In August Wilhelm Ambros: Wege seiner Musikkritik, -ästhetik und -historiographie, ed. by Marketa Štědronská, 37–60. Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft 53. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1jpf66r.5.
  • 2021. Wilfing-Albrecht, Meike. “Der Direktor und sein Kritiker: Die wechselseitige Beeinflussung zwischen Künstler und Kritiker am Beispiel von Eduard Hanslick und Gustav Mahler.” In Musikinstrumente und Musizierpraxis zur Zeit Gustav Mahlers, ed. by Harmut Krones and Reinhold Kubik, 367–384. Vienna: Böhlau, https://doi.org/10.7767/9783205211204.367.
  • 2020. Bonds, Mark Evan. “Hanslick and Leibniz.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 21–30. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.5.
  • 2020. Grey, Thomas. “Re-Thinking Beauty in the Musically Beautiful.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 89–117. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.9.
  • 2020. Grimes, Nicole. “‘Ueber Religionsverschiedenheit’: The Role of Religious Difference in Hanslick’s Music Criticism.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 193–204. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.14.
  • 2020. Korenjak, Andrea. “Hanslick’s Discourse on Musical Aesthetics in the Context of Medicine and Psychiatry circa 1850.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 205–229. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.15.
  • 2020. Landerer, Christoph. “Hanslick und die Jurisprudenz.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 31–45. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.6.
  • 2020. Landerer, Christoph. “(Un)formalistische Wahlverwandtschaften: Hanslick und Simmel.” In Musik und Lebensphilosophie, ed. by Manos Perrakis, 45–62. Studien zur Wertungsforschung 64. Vienna: Universal Edition.
  • 2020. Perrakis, Manos. “Lively Arabesque: Between the Sublime and the Beautiful.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 119–130. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.10.
  • 2020. Pryer, Anthony. “Hanslick’s Vom Musikalisch-Schönen and the Notion of Performance Interpretation: Contexts and Consequences” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 131–151. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.11.
  • 2020. Rothfarb, Lee. “Hanslick’s Hauptsatz: Brahms und Bruckner.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 153–172. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.12.
  • 2020. Singer, Andrea. “Hörer-Statistik zu Hanslicks musikgeschichtlichen Vorlesungen an der Universität Wien.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 231–249. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.16.
  • 2020. Štědronská, Markéta. “August Wilhelm Ambros’ Relektüre von Vom Musikalisch-Schönen.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 47–59. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.7.
  • 2020. Telesko, Werner. “Rudolf von Eitelberger (1817–1885): Hanslick und die Anfänge der Kunstgeschichte in Wien.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 251–264. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.17.
  • 2020. Wilfing, Alexander. “Hanslick’s Kantianism? Johann Heinrich Dambeck, Christian Friedrich Michaelis, and Hans Georg Nägeli.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 61–86. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.8.
  • 2020. Wilfing, Alexander, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht. “Vorwort / Preface.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 7–17. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.3.
  • 2020. Zangwill, Nick. “Hanslick on Non-Absolute Music.” In 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, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer, and Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, 173–190. Vienna: Hollitzer, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1cdx6qk.13.
  • 2018. Landerer, Christoph, Alexander Wilfing and Lee Rothfarb. “Origins, Publication, and Translation History of the Treatise.” In Eduard Hanslick’s ‘On the Musically Beautiful’: A New Translation, trans. by Lee Rothfarb and Christoph Landerer, xv–xxx. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2018. Landerer, Christoph and Lee Rothfarb. “Introduction to Hanslick’s Central Concepts.” In Eduard Hanslick’s ‘On the Musically Beautiful’: A New Translation, trans. by Lee Rothfarb and Christoph Landerer, xxxi–lii. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2018. Landerer, Christoph und Lee Rothfarb. “Philosophical Background.” In Eduard Hanslick’s ‘On the Musically Beautiful’: A New Translation, trans. by Lee Rothfarb and Christoph Landerer, liii–lxxii. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2016. Wilfing, Alexander. “Eduard Hanslick zwischen Deutschem Idealismus und Österreichischem Realismus: Eine Fallstudie zur österreichischen Kantrezeption.” In Ausgehend von Kant: Wegmarken der Klassischen Deutschen Philosophie, ed. by Violetta Waibel, 319–342. Studien zur Phänomenologie und praktischen Philosophie 38. Würzburg: Ergon.

Lexikon Articles

  • 2025. Wilfing, Alexander. “Eduard Hanslick, Univ.-Prof. Dr. jur.” In 650 plus – Geschichte der Universität Wien, https://geschichte.univie.ac.at/de/personen/eduard-hanslick.
  • 2023. Landerer, Christoph and Alexander Wilfing. “Eduard Hanslick, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen: Ein Beitrag zur Revision der Ästhetik der Tonkunst.” In Lexikon Schriften über Musik, vol. 2, Musikästhetik in Europa und Nordamerika, ed. by Felix Wörner and Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, 316–319. Kassel: Bärenreiter; Berlin: Metzler.
  • 2023. Wilfing, Alexander. “Eduard Hanslick, Censur und Kunst-Kritik.” In Lexikon Schriften über Musik, vol. 2, Musikästhetik in Europa und Nordamerika, ed. by Felix Wörner and Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, 314–316. Kassel: Bärenreiter; Berlin: Metzler.
  • 2023. Wilfing, Alexander. “Hanslicks historische Bedeutung / Hanslick’s Historical Relevance.” In Hanslick Online, ed. by Alexander Wilfing, https://hanslick.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/bedeutung-hanslick.html?lang=de
  • 2019. Wilfing, Alexander and Christoph Landerer. “Eduard Hanslick.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://iep.utm.edu/hanslick/.

Reviews

  • 2020. Wilfing, Alexander. “Matthias Schmidt, Eingebildete Musik: Richard Wagner, das jüdische Wien und die Ästhetik der Moderne (Munich: edition text + kritik, 2019).” wagnerspectrum 16, no. 1: 266–270.
  • 2017. Wilfing, Alexander. “Julian Young, The Philosophies of Richard Wagner (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014).”19th-Century Music Review 15, no. 1, 99–102, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409817000295.
  • 2015. Wilfing, Alexander. “Richard Klein, Musikphilosophie zur Einführung (Hamburg: Junius, 2014).” H/SOZ/KULT: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften, http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-23705.
  • 2014. Landerer, Christoph and Alexander Knopf. “Über die Beziehung Nietzsches und Wagners zu Eduard Hanslick.” Nietzsche-Studien 43: 314–315 (review of Magda Polo Pujadas, Filosofía de la música del futuro: Encuentros y desencuentros entre Nietzsche, Wagner y Hanslick. Humanidades 91. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2011), https://doi.org/10.1515/nietzstu-2014-0133.
  • 2014. Landerer, Christoph and Alexander Wilfing. “Hanslick und der cultural turn.” Musik und Ästhetik 72: 117–121. (review of Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression, ed. by Nicole Grimes, Siobhán Donovan, and Wolfgang Marx. Eastman Studies in Music 97. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2013), https://www.musikundaesthetik.de/article/99.120205/mu-18-4-117.

Forthcoming

Books

  • “Composer-Critics and Their Music: Reflections on Minds of the Nineteenth Century,” ed. by David Trippett and Alexander Wilfing. Special issue, Nineteenth-Century Music Review (in review).
  • “Eduard Hanslick, 1825–2025: Background, Context, Legacy,” ed. by Alexander Wilfing. Special issue, Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies (submission by April 2026).
  • “Eduard Hanslick: Ästhetiker, Historiker, Kritiker,” ed. by Alexander Wilfing. Special issue, Die Musikforschung (submission by July 2026).
  • “Eduard Hanslick’s On the Musically Beautiful: From 1854 to 2025,” ed. by Alexander Wilfing. Special issue, Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics (submission by the end of 2026).
  • Eduard Hanslick, Selected Criticism and Other Writings. Vol. 1, Hanslick at the Opera, trans. and ed. by Thomas Grey and Alexander Wilfing. Rethinking Austrian and German Music. New York: Routledge (submission by the end of 2026).
  • Eduard Hanslick, Selected Criticism and Other Writings. Vol. 2, Hanslick in the Concert Hall, trans. and ed. by Thomas Grey and Alexander Wilfing. Rethinking Austrian and German Music. New York: Routledge (submission by the end of 2027).
  • Eduard Hanslick, Selected Criticism and Other Writings. Vol. 3, Hanslick at Large, trans. and ed. by Thomas Grey and Alexander Wilfing. Rethinking Austrian and German Music. New York: Routledge (submission by the end of 2028).

Chapters

  • Boisits, Barbara, and Alexander Wilfing. “Hanslick, Eduard.” In Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon Online, ed. by Barbara Boisits (update of the original article written by Barbara Boisits in 2023), https://dx.doi.org/10.1553/0x0001d073 (submission by mid-2026).
  • Bunzel, Anja and Alexander Wilfing. “‘Známý videňský a již zemřelý professor a aesthetik’: Eduard Hanslick’s Double Lives.” In Open access special issue, Czech Academy of Sciences (currently no working title). Edited by Václav Petrbok (accepted).
  • Grimes, Nicole and Alexander Wilfing. “Eduard Hanslick.” Oxford Bibliographies Online, https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199757824-0014 (update of the original article by Nicole Grimes of 2015, submission by the end of 2026).
  • Wilfing, Alexander. “Eduard Hanslick.” In Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti, ed. by Antonio Baldassarre and Daniela Castaldo, https://www.rilm.org/deumm-online/ (accepted).
  • Wilfing, Alexander. “Culture, Politics, and Aesthetic Discord: Bruckner and Hanslick in Vienna’s Musico-Critical Landscape (1865–1902).” In 200 Jahre Bruckner—100 Jahre Bruckner-Forschung, ed. by Clemens Gubsch and Andrea Harrandt. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in review).
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