Martin Wåhlberg
About
Martin Wåhlberg is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He completed his Master’s in comparative literature at Sorbonne Université, his training in historical music performance at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris and his PhD at NTNU and the Sorbonne. He has been a junior member of the Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment, University of Oxford, a visiting scholar to St Edmund Hall, Oxford and a visiting scholar at the Università di Pisa. He became an Associate Professor at NTNU in 2016 and a full Professor in 2020.
His research focuses on literature, music and anthropology in eighteenth-century French literature and culture. He is co-leader of the research group Classical Ages at NTNU. He is the author of La Scène de musique dans le roman du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 2015) as well as a monograph on Rousseau, Opplysningens sorte får (Oslo, 2011). He is co-editor of Amour, violence, sexualité (Paris, 2007). He was awarded the Prix jeune chercheur, an annual prize awarded to a young scholar in French studies worldwide by the Association International des Etudes françaises for his article ‘L’anthropologie des Lumières et le mythe de l’hospitalité lapone’, published with Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment. He also received the Young Researcher Prize awarded by the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters for his PhD on music in French prose fiction in the eighteenth century.
He has initiated or been involved in a number of research projects and international networks. He co-founded the Favart network on opéra-comique studies and is currently the project leader of Revolutionary opéra-comique, a Research Council of Norway funded project on opéra-comique in Paris during the French Revolution as well as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions individual fellowship project. He has carried out a number of performance-related initiatives on eighteenth-century music and opera, leading to discoveries on performance methods and to CD recordings, including Le Roman des Lumières, 2013, on the label K617, and Grétry’s opéra-comique Raoul Barbe Bleue, 2018, on the label Aparté. This last project received a number of prizes and awards in 2019 and 2020, such as CHOC Classica, Le Monde and a nomination for the International Classical Music Awards. It was selected by the BBC Music Magazine as one of the best opera recordings of the year.
As part of his Research Council of Norway funded project he is currently completing a database on opéra-comique performances in Paris in the period surrounding the French Revolution in collaboration with Sorbonne Université.
Publications
2021
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2021)
Casanova, Da Ponte et Mozart à l'écran.
Casanova à l'écran.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2020
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2020)
Diderot Ibsen and the Drame Lyrique in Scandinavia.
Ibsen Studies.
volum 20 (1).
Academic article
2018
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2018)
L'Opéra-comique dans les Liaisons dangereuses.
Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte.
volum 42 (3-4).
Academic article
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2018)
L’opéra-comique e il dialogo sul potere.
Le voci arcane. Palcoscenici del potere nel teatro e nell'opera.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2017
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2017)
Les idées de la musique: des pièces à caractère à l'histoire des idées.
L'Atelier des idées. Pour Michel Delon.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2015
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2015)
La Scène de musique dans le roman du XVIIIe siècle.
Classiques Garnier. 2015. ISBN 978-2-8124-3626-0.
Academic monograph
2013
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2013)
La philosophie de la musique dans le roman du XVIIIe siècle: de l'effet au charme.
Fictions de la pensée, pensées de la fiction. Roman et philosophie aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2013)
Voltaire critique musical dans sa correspondance.
Voltaire et la musique.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2011
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2011)
L'île aux musiciens, Klimius et Ollivier.
Dix-huitième Siècle.
Academic article
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2011)
Opplysningens sorte får : Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).
Humanist Forlag. 2011. ISBN 978-82-92622-83-4.
Academic monograph
2010
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2010)
Fonctions des maximes et sentences dans l'Emile.
Dévier et divertir. Littérature et pensée du XVIIIe siècle.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2010)
Littérature de voyage et savoir: la méthode de lecture de Buffon.
Dix-huitième Siècle.
Academic article
2009
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2009)
L’anthropologie des Lumières et le mythe de l’hospitalité lapone.
Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Etudes Francaises.
Academic article
2008
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2008)
L'altérité des Lapons: une difficulté dans l'Europe des Lumières.
A l'ombre des Lumières. Littérature et pensée francaises du XVIIIe siècle.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2007
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2007)
La musique ou l'énergie de la torture. L'orchestre de Juliette et les huit passions du duc de Pienza.
Amour, violence, sexualité. De Sade à nos jours. Hommage à Svein-Eirik Fauskevåg à l'occasion de son 65e anniversaire.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2007)
L'anthropologie des Lumières et le mythe de l'hospitalité lapone - Regnard, Buffon, Maupertuis, Voltaire, Sade.
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment.
volum 12.
Academic article
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Wåhlberg, Martin;
Kolderup, Trude.
(2007)
Amour, violence, sexualité. De Sade à nos jours. Hommage à Svein-Eirik Fauskevåg à l'occasion de son 65e anniversaire.
L'Harmattan. 2007. ISBN 9782296032194.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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Wåhlberg, Martin;
Kolderup, Trude.
(2007)
Introduction.
Amour, violence, sexualité. De Sade à nos jours. Hommage à Svein-Eirik Fauskevåg à l'occasion de son 65e anniversaire.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Journal publications
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2020)
Diderot Ibsen and the Drame Lyrique in Scandinavia.
Ibsen Studies.
volum 20 (1).
Academic article
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2018)
L'Opéra-comique dans les Liaisons dangereuses.
Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte.
volum 42 (3-4).
Academic article
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2011)
L'île aux musiciens, Klimius et Ollivier.
Dix-huitième Siècle.
Academic article
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2010)
Littérature de voyage et savoir: la méthode de lecture de Buffon.
Dix-huitième Siècle.
Academic article
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2009)
L’anthropologie des Lumières et le mythe de l’hospitalité lapone.
Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Etudes Francaises.
Academic article
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2007)
L'anthropologie des Lumières et le mythe de l'hospitalité lapone - Regnard, Buffon, Maupertuis, Voltaire, Sade.
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment.
volum 12.
Academic article
Books
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2015)
La Scène de musique dans le roman du XVIIIe siècle.
Classiques Garnier. 2015. ISBN 978-2-8124-3626-0.
Academic monograph
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2011)
Opplysningens sorte får : Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).
Humanist Forlag. 2011. ISBN 978-82-92622-83-4.
Academic monograph
-
Wåhlberg, Martin;
Kolderup, Trude.
(2007)
Amour, violence, sexualité. De Sade à nos jours. Hommage à Svein-Eirik Fauskevåg à l'occasion de son 65e anniversaire.
L'Harmattan. 2007. ISBN 9782296032194.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Part of book/report
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Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2021)
Casanova, Da Ponte et Mozart à l'écran.
Casanova à l'écran.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2018)
L’opéra-comique e il dialogo sul potere.
Le voci arcane. Palcoscenici del potere nel teatro e nell'opera.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2017)
Les idées de la musique: des pièces à caractère à l'histoire des idées.
L'Atelier des idées. Pour Michel Delon.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2013)
La philosophie de la musique dans le roman du XVIIIe siècle: de l'effet au charme.
Fictions de la pensée, pensées de la fiction. Roman et philosophie aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2013)
Voltaire critique musical dans sa correspondance.
Voltaire et la musique.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2010)
Fonctions des maximes et sentences dans l'Emile.
Dévier et divertir. Littérature et pensée du XVIIIe siècle.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2008)
L'altérité des Lapons: une difficulté dans l'Europe des Lumières.
A l'ombre des Lumières. Littérature et pensée francaises du XVIIIe siècle.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Wåhlberg, Martin.
(2007)
La musique ou l'énergie de la torture. L'orchestre de Juliette et les huit passions du duc de Pienza.
Amour, violence, sexualité. De Sade à nos jours. Hommage à Svein-Eirik Fauskevåg à l'occasion de son 65e anniversaire.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Wåhlberg, Martin;
Kolderup, Trude.
(2007)
Introduction.
Amour, violence, sexualité. De Sade à nos jours. Hommage à Svein-Eirik Fauskevåg à l'occasion de son 65e anniversaire.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper