Marco Giuseppe Peranda (Macerata, c. 1625 – 12 January 1675 in Dresden) was an Italian musician and composer active in Germany.
He was one of the most notable Italian musicians in Germany during the early Baroque alongside Vincenzo Albrici, Carlo Pallavicino and Giovanni Andrea Bontempi in Dresden.
[1] A contemporary, Agostino Rossi, records him as being a native of Macerata but his musical style shows an education in Rome.
His opera Dafne (composed in collaboration) was performed to open the Opernhaus am Taschenberg in Dresden.
In 1675 Peranda died, and since unlike some Italian musicians he had never converted to Lutheranism, was buried in Marienstern Abbey in Dresden.