About Professor Martin Nedbal
Martin Nedbal is an Associate Professor of Musicology and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. His research primarily focuses on German and Czech music, with a particular emphasis on opera during eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 2023, Cambridge University Press published his latest book, "Mozart's Operas and National Politics: Canon Formation in Prague from 1791 to the Present." Nedbal is also the author of "Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven" (Routledge, 2017) and translator and editor of "The Published Theoretical Works of Leoš Janáček" (Editio Janáček, 2020). He is also one of the editors for the forthcoming book "A History of Music in the Czech Lands," which will be published by Cambridge University Press.Nedbal's research extends to the realm of Czech music, particularly focusing on the works of Smetana and Dvořák, as well as German musical culture in Prague.

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Date/Time: October 22, 2024, at 12pm EST (ONLINE)

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UPCOMING LECTURE:
October 23, 2024: 12 noon EST (ONLINE)
Czech Music Series: Highlighting Leoš Janáčak with David Thurmaier
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