Jana Lengová

PhDr. Jana Lengová, CSc. is a Slovak musicologist, music publicist, and editor. She studied piano at the Conservatory in Košice and music theory at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (1971–1976), where she completed her studies with the thesis Hudobné myslenie Cikkerových opier a inštrumentálnych skladieb (The Musical Thinking in Cikker’s Operas and Instrumental Works, 1976). She was awarded the academic title PhDr. in 1983 and earned her CSc. in 1988 with the dissertation Hudobný romantizmus na Slovensku v rokoch 1830–1918 (Musical Romanticism in Slovakia from 1830 to 1918, 1987). Until 1990, Lengová worked in various institutions, including as an editor of the magazine Hudobný život (Musical Life) and as a research associate at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. During this period, she was primarily active as a music publicist. Since 1990, she has been working as a researcher in the Department of Music History at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava.

Jana Lengová specializes in the history of 19th- and partly 20th-century music in Slovakia. She co-authored several collective monographs, including Dejiny slovenskej hudby (History of Slovak Music, 1996; English version 2003) and Hudobné dejiny Bratislavy. Od stredoveku po rok 1918 (The Musical History of Bratislava. From the Middle Ages to 1918, 2020). She contributed to the critical edition of the complete works of J. L. Bella, published the sheet music anthology Antológia klavírnej hudby na Slovensku (1830 – 1918) (Anthology of Piano Music in Slovakia, 1830–1918, 2015), and the monograph Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppachová (1849–1919). Život, dielo, korešpondencia (Life, Work, Correspondence, 2019).

Since 1999, Lengová has been a member of the working group for research on the history of music in Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Leipzig (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Musikgeschichte in Mittel- und Osteuropa, Universität Leipzig). From 2003 to 2008, she served as a specialist advisor on Slovak music for the second edition of the music encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), contributing to both the Personenteil and Supplement volumes.

She is a member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal Musicalia (Prague), of the Slovak Academy of Sciences’ Scientific Council for Language, Literature and the Arts, and of the editorial board of the journal Musicologica Slovaca. She also serves as a doctoral supervisor in the study program of musicology, field 2.1.21 Theory of Music. She actively participates in scholarly conferences and regularly contributes to academic journals.