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Martin Wåhlberg

Martin Wåhlberg

Professor
Department of Language and Literature
Faculty of Humanities

martin.wahlberg@ntnu.no
+4773596541 +4797684261 Bygg 3, 3511, Dragvoll
Opéra-comique and the French Revolution The Classical Ages Research Group
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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

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2021

  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2021) Casanova, Da Ponte et Mozart à l'écran. Casanova à l'écran.
    Academic chapter/article

2020

  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2020) Diderot Ibsen and the Drame Lyrique in Scandinavia. Ibsen Studies. volum 20 (1).
    Academic article

2018

  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2018) L'Opéra-comique dans les Liaisons dangereuses. Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte. volum 42 (3-4).
    Academic article
  • 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

2017

  • 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

2015

  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2015) La Scène de musique dans le roman du XVIIIe siècle. Classiques Garnier. 2015. ISBN 978-2-8124-3626-0.
    Scientific monography

2013

  • 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
  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2013) Voltaire critique musical dans sa correspondance. Voltaire et la musique.
    Academic chapter/article

2011

  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2011) L'île aux musiciens, Klimius et Ollivier. Dix-huitième Siècle.
    Academic article
  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2011) Opplysningens sorte får : Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Humanist Forlag. 2011. ISBN 978-82-92622-83-4.
    Scientific monography

2010

  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2010) Fonctions des maximes et sentences dans l'Emile. Dévier et divertir. Littérature et pensée du XVIIIe siècle.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2010) Littérature de voyage et savoir: la méthode de lecture de Buffon. Dix-huitième Siècle.
    Academic article

2009

  • 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

  • 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

2007

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    Scientific anthology
  • 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

Scientific articles

  • 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

  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2015) La Scène de musique dans le roman du XVIIIe siècle. Classiques Garnier. 2015. ISBN 978-2-8124-3626-0.
    Scientific monography
  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2011) Opplysningens sorte får : Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Humanist Forlag. 2011. ISBN 978-82-92622-83-4.
    Scientific monography
  • 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.
    Scientific anthology

Part of book/report

  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2021) Casanova, Da Ponte et Mozart à l'écran. Casanova à l'écran.
    Academic chapter/article
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2013) Voltaire critique musical dans sa correspondance. Voltaire et la musique.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Wåhlberg, Martin. (2010) Fonctions des maximes et sentences dans l'Emile. Dévier et divertir. Littérature et pensée du XVIIIe siècle.
    Academic chapter/article
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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Courses

  • ALIT2202 - Advanced Course in Literature before 1800
  • ALIT3302 - Common Literary Syllabus - Literature before 1800
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