MVSICA PERDVTA is a cultural association founded in 2007 by Renato Criscuolo and Valerio Losito and is engaged in research, in libraries and archives, of unpublished or unknown musical works of distinguished authors and composers, primarily of the 17^th and 18^th centuries who, notwithstanding talent and composing skills, weren't given justice by the history of music and deserve to be re-valued.  Once studied, the music found is re-proposed in concert, often as a first modern performance by means of original baroque instruments, or faithful copies.

Besides boasting about the discovery of unpublished works of composers of the calibre of Vivaldi, Haendel, Scarlatti, Pergolesi and Zuccari, Mvsica Perdvta is devoted to the study of organology: the  reconstruction of antique musical instruments almost forgotten today,  like the bass violin, the renaissance lyre or the 17^th century violin.

The ensemble, which is made up of expert musicians specialised in baroque music and is in active collaboration with some of the most well-known ensembles and orchestras in the field, has performed in important national festivals, among which Baroque continuo-Festival of the Centre of Antique Music Pietà de' Turchini, Baroque Festival of San Gimignano; the concerts of Capri; Festival Segni Barocchi of Foligno; Baroque Rome Festival.  The Association conducts a season of spiritual concerts in the Vestry of Chiesa Nuova in Rome in which music dedicated to San Filippo Neri is presented: written for the Exercise of the Oratory which was founded and promised by the Saint and in which the spirit of brotherhood is proposed.  It is by no accident that its first CD recording and imminent publication is based precisely on oratory music of San Filippo in Rome between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  Instead, a second CD, also in publication, proposes six of the ten sonatas for cello and figured bass of  Fr. Francesco Maria Zuccari OFM, discovered by the group in the library of the Sacred Convent of Assisi.

The Association has also collaborated with the Department of Philosophy of the University of Studies in Rome, ‘Tor Vergata' to carry out a project on written music of Jean Jacques Rousseau, as well as, edited and recorded the audio for the Smartphone application ‘i-MiBAC - Top 40': the first in a series of applications for mobile phones, multi-themes and cost-free, dedicated to the cultural heritage granted by an Italian Ministry: the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities.

Finally, Mvsica Perdvta offers a range of services to other associations, groups or individual musicians, such as transcriptions in modern clef, musicological research, finding scores and manuscripts, compliance with ENPALS, SIAE documentation and rental of instruments.