Events

April 07, 2025
  • 2025/09. “Eduard Hanslick, 1825–2025: Background, Context, Legacy,” bilingual international symposium on occasion of Eduard Hanslick’s 200th birthday, organized by Alexander Wilfing in collaboration with Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences, funded in-house by the ACDH-CH.
  • 2025/05. “The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick,” book launch event of The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2025), organized by Alexander Wilfing; speakers: Thomas S. Grey, Christoph Landerer, and Nick Zangwill; Online Connections Seminar, European Network for the Philosophy of Music.
  • 2025/03. “Composer-Critics and Their Music: Reflections on Minds of the Nineteenth Century,” workshop organized by Alexander Wilfing in collaboration with David Trippett, Christ’s College, Cambridge, funded by the DAAD.
  • 2024/07. “Auch klassische Komponisten hatten Beefs,” interview with Alexander Wilfing for the Austrian Academy of Sciences, moderated by Karin Cerny.
  • 2024/05. „Der Kritiker als Komponist: Eduard Hanslicks Liedschaffen / The Critic as Composer: The Songs of Eduard Hanslick“, recording of the lecture recital of September 2023; concept and organization: Alexander Wilfing (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Anja Bunzel (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences); Camera: Bernhard Graf (Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Johannes Spitzbart (Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences); Editing: Johannes Spitzbart; song texts
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  • 2024/01. “Alexander Wilfing: Walking in the Steps of Eduard Hanslick,” interview with Alexander Wilfing for the magazine sonograma, moderated by Mercedes de Luis Andrés.
  • 2023/09. “Der Kritiker als Komponist: Eduard Hanslicks Liedschaffen,” lecture recital organized by Alexander Wilfing (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Anja Bunzel (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences) at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Concert program available at https://www.academia.edu/106512915/Booklet_Hanslick_Concert_Vienna_September_29_2023_.
  • 2023/04. “Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Musikwissenschaft(en),” workshop at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, organized by Alexander Wilfing, Austrian Academy of Sciences, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF.
  • 2020/04. “New Directions in Hanslick Scholarship,” workshop organized by Christoph Landerer and Alexander Wilfing at the Department of Musicology, University of Vienna, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
  • 2019/07. Organisation of the special session “Hanslick’s Concepts: Meaning, Translation, Reception,” 7th Biennial Music and Philosophy Conference, London; organisation: Alexander Wilfing; presenters: Christoph Landerer, Lee Rothfarb, and Alexander Wilfing; for further details and the program, see https://musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/events/mpsg-2019/.
  • 2017/03. “Probleme der Hanslick-Forschung,” workshop at the Institute of History of Art and Musicology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, organized by Christoph Landerer and Alexander Wilfing, funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the City of Vienna.
  • 2016/12. “Der böse Besserwisser: Eduard Hanslick,” interview with Christoph Landerer, Lee Rothfarb, and Alexander Wilfing for the radio program “Apropos Musik” (Ö1), conducted by Johannes Leopold Mayer.
  • 2016/09. “Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context,” bilingual international conference, organized by Christoph Landerer and Alexander Wilfing, Austrian Society for Music, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the City of Vienna; for further details and the program, see http://hanslick2016.com/ and https://www.oeaw.ac.at/de/acdh/detail/news/eduard-hanslick-im-kontext-3.