Tomislav Volek, is a Czech musicologist who is best known for his research on the music of

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...

Biography

Spending much of his career in Prague, Volek made a virtue of necessity by exploring the musical life of eighteenth-century Bohemia, with particular emphasis on Mozart’s activities in Prague. Meticulous archival research combined with a willingness to advance daring new hypotheses led to a series of pathbreaking articles, one of which, ''“Über den Ursprung von Mozarts Oper

La clemenza di Tito (''The Clemency of Titus''), K. 621, is an ''opera seria'' in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio. Mozart completed the work in the midst of composing ''Die Zauberfl ...

”'' (''Mozart-Jahrbuch'', 1959), contributed to a fundamental reassessment of one of Mozart’s late operas, although some of his theories, especially the claim that Mozart began work on the opera much earlier than the summer of 1791, have been thoroughly refuted in English-language musicological literature.For a summary of this literature, see Daniel E. Freeman, ''Mozart in Prague'' (2013), pp. 300-301. His work on ''

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; full title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legen ...

'' and its Bohemian context is also of crucial importance, as is his edition of Mozart documents, ''“The Mozartiana of Czech and Moravian Archives”'' (Prague, 1991). Volek is President of the Czech Mozart Society and a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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Works
in Bibliography of the Czech Lands History (Historical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)

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’s wife)

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