The Umbrian Music Festival, founded in Perugia in 1937, is one of the oldest music festivals in Italy, dedicated to sacred and spiritual-inspired music. Since then, with the interval due to the Second World War, the Festival is internationally known for its illustrious performers, the many first performances of contemporary authors, the rediscovery of great masterpieces of the past, the numerous symphonic-choral works, today well known, presented in Italy for the first time.