Mark Ferraguto

Mark Ferraguto is Associate Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania State University. An internationally recognized scholar of 18th- and early 19th-century music, he has published on a variety of topics spanning the fields of musicology, cultural history, and international relations. He is the author of Beethoven 1806 (Oxford University Press, 2019), a musical microhistory that has been described as “one of the boldest contextual studies [of Beethoven] to date” (Oxford Bibliographies Online). Other recent publications include the first modern edition of Franz Weiss’s “Razumovsky” Quartets (A-R Editions, 2023) and a companion essay in The String Quartet in Beethoven’s Europe (Academic Studies Press, 2022). An Associate of the American Guild of Organists, he is a performer on organ and harpsichord and a specialist in historical performance practices. He studied music history and early keyboards at Cornell University, the College of the Holy Cross, and the Conservatoire de Strasbourg.