Biographical Summary
Viktor Velek is currently preparing his habilitation. He teaches at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ostrava. In the winter semester 2023-2024 he was guest lecturer at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna and from 2019 to 2023 member of the international scientific team for the project of the Czech Funding Agency Old Facts, New Myths: Czech Lands in the Center of 15th Century Music Developments (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University in Prague).
Current GHI Research Project
His research activities focus on topics such as the musical culture of the German Bohemians, the musical life of the Viennese Czechs (Slavs) and the shared musical history of the Czechs and Lusatian Sorbs. He dealt with the latter topic, among others, as a scholarship holder of the German-Czech Future Fund (2003/2004), he then devoted himself to the musical culture of Czech Vienna in the "long 19th century" as part of the FWF individual project (2008-2011) The musical culture of the Viennese Czechs 1840-1939, and he deals with Czech-German musical relations on an ongoing basis, mainly thanks to his cooperation with the SMI Regensburg.
As part of his scholarship, he is dedicated to researching musical forms of veneration of the Bohemian patron saint (St. Prince Wenceslas) on the part of the German Bohemians.
