Mark Ferraguto
- Professor, Musicology
- Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies
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Musicology
227 Music Building I
- Email mcf18@psu.edu
Biography
Mark Ferraguto, Professor of Musicology and Associate Director of the School of Music, specializes in the music and culture of 18th- and early 19th-century Europe. His research explores the intersection of musical style with cultural and political history, particularly in the works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. He is the author of Beethoven 1806 (Oxford University Press, 2019) and co-editor of Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
A dedicated proponent of historical performance and critical editing, Ferraguto serves as General Editor of Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era (A-R Editions). His recent projects include the first critical editions of works by Beethoven’s contemporaries George Bridgetower and Franz Weiss. In 2024, he received the American Musicological Society’s Noah Greenberg Award for his collaboration with the Eybler Quartet on the premiere and recording of Weiss’s “Razumovsky” string quartets.
Ferraguto’s work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music and Letters (Westrup Prize), Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Studia Musicologica, and several Cambridge Companions. An active performer on early and modern keyboards, he is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists (AAGO Prize) and a faculty member of Chamber Music Collective, a summer workshop on period instruments. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and received the College of Arts and Architecture’s Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award in 2019. His research has been supported by the AMS, the DAAD, IES Abroad, and the Mellon Foundation.