Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
 doc. Mgr. Vladimír Zvara, PhD.
Faculty:
FiF - Faculty of Arts
Faculty:
FiF - Faculty of Arts

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Zvara
I.2 - Name
Vladimír
I.3 - Degrees
Doc. Mgr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1969
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Gondova 2, 81102 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
Associate professor (docent)
I.8 - E-mail address
vladimir.zvara@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4143
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Theory and History of Art and Culture
I.11 - ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6839-1528

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts
II.b - Year
1992
II.c - Study field and programme
Musicology
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts – Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
II.b - Year
1998
II.c - Study field and programme
History and Theory of Arts – Musicology
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts
II.b - Year
2005
II.c - Study field and programme
History and Theory of Arts – Musicology
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Literary Advisor Slovak National Theatre – Opera 1996 – 2015
Researcher, Deputy Director Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences 1998 – 2001
Assistant Professor Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts 2002 – 2005
Associate Professor (docent) Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts 2005 –

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Complementary studies in education Academy of Fine Arts, Prague 1992
German and English courses Vienna University 1998
AiS2 Academic Information System Comenius University in Bratislava 2002
Online teaching course Comenius University in Bratislava 2020

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Introduction to Musicology Musicology, Ethnology I Theory and History of Art and Culture, Historical Sciences
Seminar - Music History Musicology II Theory and History of Art and Culture
19th Century Music Musicology I Theory and History of Art and Culture
History of Opera and Music Theatre Musicology II Theory and History of Art and Culture
Doctoral Seminar Arts Studies III Theory and History of Art and Culture, Historical Sciences
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
Musicology I Theory and History of Art and Culture
Musicology II Theory and History of Art and Culture
Arts Studies III Theory and History of Art and Culture
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
2
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
0
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
2
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
15
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
28
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
6
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Thesis Seminar Musicology I Theory and History of Art and Culture
Dissertation Project Seminar Arts Studies III Theory and History of Art and Culture
Music Programming and Production Musicology II Theory and History of Art and Culture

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
178
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
10
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
6
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
2
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
169
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
44
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
17
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
5
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
3
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
0
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Zvara, Vladimír : Ján Cikker : Vzkriesenie. Genéza, osudy a interpretácia operného diela/Auferstehung. Entstehung, Wirkung und Interpretation der Oper. - Bratislava: VEDA, 2000. - 342 p. - ISBN 80-224-0619-8

2

Zvara, Vladimír : "Werk und Kommentar : zur Interpretation eigener Werke bei Strauss und

Hofmannsthal". In: Richard Strauss und die Moderne. - Berlin: Henschel Verlag, 2001. - pp. 139-

151 - ISBN 3-89487-372-8

3

Zvara, Vladimír : "Paul Hindemiths Cardillac zwischen Expressionismus und deutscher

Händelrenaissance". In: Hudební věda, Vol. 41, No. 1-2 (2004). - pp. 95-106 - SCOPUS

4

Zvara, Vladimír : "Leoš Janáček and the ´Slavic catharsis´". In: International Review of the

Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2012). - p. 23-34 - WoS

5

Zvara, Vladimír : "Auf der Suche nach dem Sinn der Oper : die ´untote´ Kunstgattung in der Stadt Bratislava". In: Musiktheater in Raum und Zeit : Beiträge zur Geschichte der

Theaterpraxis in Mitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert = Hudobné divadlo v priestore a

čase : príspevky k dejinám divadelnej praxe v strednej Európe v 19. a 20. storočí (ed. Vladimír Zvara). - Bratislava : NM CODE, 2015. - pp. 219-242. - ISBN 978-80-89484-05-8

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Zvara, Vladimír : Nová doba : premeny hudobného života v Bratislave po druhej svetovej vojne [New age : the transformation of Bratislava's musical life in the post-war year]. In: Malé osobnosti veľkých dejín - veľké osobnosti malých dejín : Hudba v Bratislave : príspevky k hudobnej regionalistike : Roč. 6. - Bratislava : Slovenská muzikologická asociácia, 2021. - S. 272-289. - ISBN 978-80-8060-505-6 - https://www.snm.sk/swift_data/source/sidelna_budova/2021/muzea_web/hum/zbornik/Prinos%20svetovych%20osobnosti%20v%20kontexte%20historickych%20parkov%20a%20tradicia%20pestovania%20ruzi%20v%20Dolnej%20Krupej.pdf

2

Zvara, Vladimír : "He has lifted the Iron Curtain : Reflections on Ján Cikker's Literaturopern and their reception". In: Studia musicologica, Vol. 59, No. 3-4 (2018). - pp. 345-363. - ISSN (print) 1788-6244 - WoS, SCOPUS

3

Bohlman, Andrea F. (25%) - Motyčka, Peter (25%) - Zagorski, Marcus (25%) - Zvara, Vladimír (25%) : "Music and Cultural Opposition". In: The Handbook of COURAGE : Cultural Opposition and Its Heritage in Eastern Europe (ed. Sándor Horváth). - Budapest : Történettudományi Intézet, 2018. - pp. 289-306. - ISBN 978-963-416-142-4

4

Zvara, Vladimír : "Constructing the past and the future of Slovak music : Dobroslav Orel in

interwar Bratislava". In: Historický časopis, Vol. 69, No. 5 (2021). - pp. 921-939. - ISSN (print) 0018-2575, ISSN (online) 2585-9099 - SCOPUS

5

Zvara, Vladimír : "Das Private und das Öffentliche Opferfiguren in den drei ersten Opern

Bedřich Smetanas". In: Opfermythen in Zentraleuropa (eds. László Levente Balogh - Christoph Leitgeb). - Wien : Praesens Verlag, 2021. - pp. 143-154. - ISBN 978-3-7069-1109-2

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

Zvara, Vladimír : "Zum Problem der inneren Handlung in den Operntexten Hugo von Hofmannsthals". In: Richard Strauss-Blätter, Vol. 34 (1995), pp. 121-134. - ISSN 0720-9827

- [o3] 2000 Walter, M.: Richard Strauss und zeine Zeit. Laaber : Laaber-Verlag, 2000, p. 463

2

Zvara, Vladimír : Ján Cikker : Vzkriesenie. Genéza, osudy a interpretácia operného

diela/Auferstehung. Entstehung, Wirkung und Interpretation der Oper. - Bratislava : Veda,

2000. - 342 pp. - ISBN 80-224-0619-8

- [o5] 2002 Gojowy, D.: V. Zvara: "Ján Cikker : Auferstehung. Entstehung, Wirkung und

Interpretation der Oper. Rezension". In: Die Musikforschung, Vol. 55, No. 5, 2002, pp. 217-218. -

WoS

3

Zvara, Vladimír : "Ján Cikker und Fritz Oeser : zur Geschichte einer Verschwiegenen

künstlerischen Zusammenarbeit". In: Musicologica Istropolitana 5. - Bratislava : Stimul, 2006. -

pp. 87-98. - ISBN 978-80-89236-18-3

- [o3] 2010 Corbellari, A.: Les mots sous les notes : Musicologie littéraire et poétique musicale

dans l`oeuvre de Romain Rolland. Geneve : Librairie Droz S. A., 2010, p. 357.

4

Zvara, Vladimír : "Leoš Janáček and the ´Slavic catharsis´". In: International Review of the

Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2012), pp. 23-34. - ISSN 0351-5796 - WoS

- [o1] 2016 Zapletal, M.: "Proměny a konstanty Helfertova psaní o Janáčkovi". In: Musicologica

Brunensia, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2016, p. 271 - SCOPUS

5

Zvara, Vladimír : "Auf der Suche nach dem Sinn der Oper : die ´untote´ Kunstgattung in der Stadt Bratislava". In: Musiktheater in Raum und Zeit : Beiträge zur Geschichte der

Theaterpraxis in Mitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert = Hudobné divadlo v priestore a

čase : príspevky k dejinám divadelnej praxe v strednej Európe v 19. a 20. storočí (ed. Vladimír Zvara). - Bratislava : NM CODE, 2015. - pp. 219-242. - ISBN 978-80-89484-05-8

- [o3] 2017 Tyrrell, J.: "Musiktheater in Raum und Zeit : Beiträge zur Geschichte der

Theaterpraxis in Mitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (ed. V. Zvara). Review". In: Music & letters, Vol. 98, No. 3, 2017, pp. 487-488 - WoS

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

COURAGE - Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former

Socialist Countries. Horizon 2020 (project No. 692919; 2016 – 2019). National Task Manager

(Slovakia).

2

Music in Bratislava. APVV (project No. 14-0681; 2014 – 2019). Member of team. 

3

Music Theatre in Bratislava 1850 – 1950 (Personalities, Institutions, Repertory, Appreciation). VEGA (project No. 2/0040/18; 2018 – 2021). Member of team.

4

Manifestations of Crisis in the Works of Slovak Composers in the 2nd Half of the 20th Century. VEGA (Project No. 1/0629/22; 2022 – 2025). Deputy Principal Investigator.

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Vice Dean Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts 2019 –
Vice Chair of the Scientific Board of the Faculty Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts 2019 – 2023
Head of the Musicology Department Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts 2007 – 2019
Evaluator of research organizations in Czech Republic Czech Government (RVVI) 2018 – 2021
Evaluator of a new study programme Masaryk University, Brno 2018 – 2019
Evaluator of research institutes (social sciences) Czech Academy of Sciences 2015
Subject area board member - Musicology, Ph.D. study programme Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Arts 2013 –
Editorial board member: Musicologica Brunensia (SCOPUS, ESCI) Masaryk University, Brno 2008 –
Subject area board member - Musicology, Theory and History of Art and Culture, Ph.D. study programme Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava 2015 – 2023

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Universität Bayreuth, Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater/Research Institute of Music Theatre Thurnau, Germany September 1994 – June 1996; September – December 2000 DAAD - research and teaching of three semestral courses at the Bayreuth University
Universität Wien Vienna September 1997 –July 1998 Vienna University Fellowship for a young scholar nominated by a Herder Prize laureate (Prof. Oskár Elschek)
Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts of the Charles University Prague October – December 2004 Teaching of one semestral course at the Charles University
Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel September – December 2007 Research Fellowship of the Paul Sacher Foundation (research on Igor Stravinsky´s manuscripts)
Institut für Kulturwissenschaften und Theatergeschichte ÖAW/Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna May 17, 2018 Invited lecture ("Jour fixe")
Karl-Franzens-Universität, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Musikwissenschaft Graz November 22, 2018 Invited lecture
Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts of the Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic two 5-day stays 2012, 2019 Erasmus

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update
2024-09-27