Prof. Francesco Degrada
(May 23^rd, 1940 – May 20^th, 2005)
Professor at the University of Milan
(Art, Music and Performances Department), teacher of History of Modern and Contemporary Music.

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Prof. Francesco Degrada died before his time on May 20^th, 2005, unanimously recognized in the Academic environment as the world maximum expert of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s works.
Pergolesi Spontini Foundation, of whom Pergolesi Committee Prof. Degrada had been President, want to keep alive also, in this web page, an affected and tender memory in the name of the long and precious collaboration. 

The Jesi Town Council, with an own deliberative act, considered dutiful to give Degrada’s name to a street of the town, thanks to a suggestion of Pergolesi Spontini Foundation, considering

• His studies about Pergolesi’s life and works, whose he redacted the final catalogue, free from fakes and implausible attributions,

• His constant revision of the compositions that allow the contemporary representation of Pergolesi’s masterpieces in an authentic version that suits the original Maestro’s will.

• His constant and twenty-tear relationship with the town of Jesi, where he organized the “Convegni Pergolesiani” with the most outstanding scholars and personally edited Olimpiade’s and Il Flaminio’s critic editions for Pergolesi Spontini Foundation’ Editions, produced during the Festival.