Mark Ferraguto

Mark Ferraguto, Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania State University, is a musicologist and performer specializing in early keyboards. An internationally recognized scholar of 18th- and early 19th-century music, 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). In recent years, he has collaborated with the Toronto-based Eybler Quartet to produce the first-ever critical edition and studio recording of Franz Weiss's long-forgotten "Razumovsky" Quartets, a project recognized by the American Musicological Society’s 2024 Noah Greenberg Award. An Associate of the American Guild of Organists, he is the Organist at Faith United Church of Christ in downtown State College and regularly plays organ and harpsichord for the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra. He studied music history and early keyboards at Cornell University, the College of the Holy Cross, and the Conservatoire de Strasbourg.