Sergio Durante (Padua, 1954), is Professor of Musicology at the University of Padua “Il Bo.’” Trained as flutist and musicologist at the Conservatory and Bologna University, he then pursued graduate studies at Harvard University under the advisorship of Christoph Wolff. Most relevant and lasting influences have been the new French historiography (through the lesson of F.A. Gallo) and musicology according to the German and North American traditions. After years of research devoted to the collective history of singers, his Harvard experience generated an interest in Mozart studies that lead to numerous publications on La clemenza di Tito (including the first facsimile edition of the autograph), Don Giovanni, and Betulia liberata, as well as studies of thoretical-analytical nature. He is member of the Mozart Academy in Salzburg since 2000 and of the Accademia galileiana in Padua since 2017. In recent years Durante has promoted research on Giuseppe Tartini and the complete edition of his works is now under way. His scholarship looks to connect broader cultural processes to the factual investigation of selected works considered as prisms that reflect in form and content the artist and societies that generated and transmitted them.