Department of Musicology
phone: +420 220 303 930
e-mail: nedbal@udu.cas.cz
Department of Musicology
Martin Nedbal serves as Editor-in-Chief of the musicology journal Hudební věda, published by the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is also Professor of Musicology and Associate Director of the Center of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. A native of Valašské Meziříčí, he received a B.A. in German and Russian Studies from Hamilton College, an M.M. in Clarinet Performance from Syracuse University, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Musicology from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Before joining the University of Kansas, he served as Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas.
His research encompasses a broad range of topics in German and Czech music, with a particular emphasis on opera. He is the author of two monographs on Mozart’s operas, co-editor of the recently published A History of Music in the Czech Lands, and has contributed to the publication of Jan Löwenbach’s biography of Bedřich Smetana and to the English translation of Leoš Janáček’s theoretical works. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including The Journal of Musicology, Music & Letters, The Musical Quarterly, Music and Politics, and Opera Quarterly. He has also contributed chapters to many edited volumes, including Mozart and His World, Martinů and His World, The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship, and The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story.
Jan Löwenbach, Bedřich Smetana: The Life and the Works, ed. Martin Nedbal, Marek Pechač, Rochester 2026.
Martin Nedbal, Kelly St. Pierre, and Hana Vlhová-Wörner, eds., A History of Music in the Czech Lands, Cambridge 2025.
Martin Nedbal, Mozart’s Operas and National Politics: Canon Formation in Prague from 1798 to the Present, Cambridge 2023.
The Published Theoretical Works of Leoš Janáček, ed. and trans. Martin Nedbal, Brno 2020.
Martin Nedbal, Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age Mozart and Beethoven, London 2017.