Mgr. Jana Franková, Ph.D.

Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, v. v. i.

Jana Franková studied musicology, French Language and Literature and the Theory and Practice of Early Music at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. She completed her studies with a joint doctoral degree in musicology from the Faculty of Arts of the Sorbonne-Université in Paris and the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno (Ph.D.: 2016). During her studies, she received a research fellowship in Austria (Aires culturelles, Sorbonne-Université). Between 2007–2014 she collaborated on research projects in the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (CNRS, Paris), Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CNRS, Versailles), Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS, Paris) and in the R.I.S.M. team at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris). In 2015–2017, she contributed to the Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition at Institute of Bohuslav Martinů in Prague. Since 2018 she has been a researcher at the Moravian Library in Brno, where she focuses mainly on 18th-century musical culture. In 2019 Jana Franková became the principal investigator on a research project on Wenzel Anton of Kaunitz-Rietberg patronage at the Association for Central European Cultural Studies.  

• History of music – European music of the 17th and 18th centuries, the life and works of Bohuslav Martinů 
• Digital humanities – digital editions and databases of musical sources 

In the project “Old Myths – New Facts“ she focuses on web interfaces and the use of digital technology in musicological research, mainly in the conception of databases of sources and digital editions.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals 

Franková, Jana. “The Work of Karl Kohaut in the Context of Central European Collections.” Hudební věda 56/2 (2019): 122–164. 

Franková, Jana. “Les cornistes en voyage? Migration des musiciens originaires de Bohême au XVIIIe siècle : sources, itinéraires, typologie.“ Les sources manuscrites de la musique ancienne: statut, organisation, transmission (2011) : musique ancienne et transferts culturels : circulation, métamorphoses et transmission (2012), ed. Frédéric Billiet; Le Jardin de Musique VII/1-2 (2017): 147–162. 

Franková, Jana. “Les sources manuscrites pour la biographie d’un musicien au XVIIIe siècle : les origines viennoises de Joseph Kohaut (1734–1777).“ Les sources manuscrites de la musique ancienne: statut, organisation, transmission (2011) : musique ancienne et transferts culturels : circulation, métamorphoses et transmission (2012), ed. Frédéric Billiet; Le Jardin de Musique VII/1-2 (2017): 71–86. 

Franková, Jana. “Mýtus české hudební emigrace z pohledu Dlabačova slovníku. [The Myth of ‘Czech Musical Emigration‘ viewed through the Dlabacz’s Dictionary]“ Musicologica Brunensia 50/1 (2015): 73–85. 

Franková, Jana. “Music in the court of Adam Franz and Joseph Adam von Schwarzenberg: Vienna, Český Krumlov and Paris and transitions at the end of Baroque era.“ Musicologica Brunensia47/1 (2012): 159–177. 

Book Chapters 

Franková, Jana. “Un foyer d’italianisme à la cour de Louis XV : La collection musicale de la dauphine Marie-Josèphe de Saxe.“ In Les grandes collections musicales de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. 1. Ancien régime, ed. Laurence Decobert a Denis Herlin, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, Éditions de la BnF, (forthcoming). 

Franková, Jana. “Wenzl Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg and his Grand Tour – A Source for his Future Musical Patronage?“ In Music and Power in Baroque Era, ed Rudolf Rasch, 319–342. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018. 

Franková, Jana. “František Jan Vondráček – zapomenutý český cembalista v Paříži 18. století. [François Jean Wondratschek - a forgotten Czech Harpsichordist in 18th-century Paris]“ In Cantantibus organis. Hudební kultura raného novověku ve středoevropských souvislostech, ed. Stanislav Tesař et al., 105–112. Brno: Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně, 2016. 

Franková, Jana. “La musique et le théâtre baroque de ČeskýKrumlov.“ In Les Schwarzenberg : une famille dans l’histoire de l’Europe. XVIe – XXIe siècles, ed. Olivier Chaline, 183–191. (Centre d’histoire de l’Europe centrale, Université de Paris – Sorbonne.) Lavauzelle, 2012. 

Editions and translations 

Karl Kohaut, Sinfonie à 3, à 4, ed. Jana Franková, Praha: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Český rozhlas, 2019. 

Bohuslav Martinů, String quartets II,ed. A. Březina, J. Franková, J. Honzíková, J. Zichová, P. Žůrek, Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition IV/3/2, Praha: Bärenreiter, 2017. 

Saint-Lambert, de, Pravidla hryna cembalo. Nové pojednání o doprovodu na cembalo, varhany a jiné nástroje od pana de Saint-Lambert [The Principles of the Harpsichord. New treatise of accompaniment on Harpsichord, Organ and other instruments by Mr de Saint-Lambert - translation into Czech], ed. and transl. by J. Franková, Brno: vlastním nákladem s podporou Masarykovy Univerzity, 2010.