IMSLP:Universities and Libraries

Contents 1 Universities and Libraries 1.1 American 1.2 Central American 1.3 South American 1.4 Australian 1.5 Canadian 1.6 European 1.6.1 Austrian 1.6.2 Belgian 1.6.3 British 1.6.4 Czech Republic 1.6.5 Danish 1.6.6 Finnish 1.6.7 French 1.6.8 German 1.6.9 Hungarian 1.6.10 Italian 1.6.11 Netherlands: Dutch 1.6.12 Norwegian 1.6.13 Polish 1.6.14 Portuguese 1.6.15 Russian 1.6.16 Scottish 1.6.17 Spanish 1.6.18 Swedish 1.6.19 Swiss 1.7 Japanese 1.8 Other

Universities and Libraries

American

• Rochester University Sibley Music Library. Massive collections of pdfs (21000+).

• Hathitrust digital library Post-1878 items from EU accessible from USA only. Select Catalog instead of Full-text. (Use template Hathi)

Unless otherwise stated all other American libraries have large collections of 19th C. popular American music and a few classical scores, in low resolution.

• Sheet Music Consortium Its catalog - select Digitized sheetmusic - includes 40 collections among which these 20:

• Library of Congress Music Department, (Use template LOCitem)

• Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800-1922. Searchable online. Also see the PDF finding aid for permanent URLs to each score.

• Combined Search Page for all collections within the American Memory collection at LOC
• List of Sheet Music Collections within the LOC's American Memory collection

• Music For The Nation High-resolution TIFs. 1820-1860 and 1870-1885.
• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
• Civil War Era Band Music
• Moldenhauer collection

• University of Maine The Maine Music Box. 22,000 titles.(Use template MMB)
• Indiana University Sheet Music from Indiana. Vast collection in pdf. Use template IUharm
• Indiana State University Cunningham Library. Kirk Collection of dance band / stage orchestra (scores and parts)
• UCLA Digital Library Sheet Music Project
• Johns Hopkins University. The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music. (Use template JHULevy)
• Duke University (Use template Duke)

• Historic American Sheet Music
• Classical String Quartets Classical String Quartets collection

• University of Auburn Piano Bench
• University of North Carolina Flash based or 300 dpi jpg's. (Use template UNC-CH)
• Frances G. Spencer Baylor University (Use template BU)
• Temple University Sheet Music Collection (Use template TU)
• University of Iowa (Use template UIowa)
• University of South Carolina more than 10000 scores. (Use template U-SC)
• University of St. Francis. Barbara A. Cooke Sheet Music Collection. Over 200 works of American popular music and musical theatre.
• University of Tennessee-Knoxville (Use template UT)
• Ohio State University (Use template OSU)
• American University 300dpi jpgs. (Use template AmerU)
• Tulane University Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. (Use template US-NORtu)
• Mississipi State University Charles H. Templeton Museum.
• University of Colorado Songs relating to Colorado, and also Ragtime.
• Ball State University (Use template BSU)

• Indiana University Variations Project. Also see the IMSLP information page for the VARIATIONS project.
• University of Chicago Scans of early Chopin editions. (Use template ChopinChicago)

• Catalogue search maybe there is more to find on the search page

• University of North Texas Virtual Rare Book Room. 139 Baroque first editions / manuscripts.
• Harvard College Loeb Music Library. Bach, Mozart, Verdi. (Use template Loeb)
• Tri-college Digital Music Initiative small collection of djvu scans and recordings of classical music.
• University of Michigan (Use template UM)
• Detroit public library Azalia Hackley Collection . African American music.
• MIT - Lewis Music Library
• New York Public Library Performing Arts, 1875-1923
• New York Public Library other collections
• The Morgan Library and Museum (New York) has begun scanning manuscripts in its collection. Flash based. (Use template Morgan)

• Hoagy Carmichael Collection American songs
• California Sheet Music Project
• Juilliard School Manuscript Collection Flash based. 140 documents. (Use template JuilliardMSS)
• University of Illinois - at archive.org
• Polley Music Library (Lincoln, NB). Small collection of high-quality sheet music files in pdf. Primarily music and composers with a Nebraska connection.
• Princeton University Digital Library (Use template PU)

• Nineteenth century sheet music collections Scans of Mostly 19th Century Music, American and others
• James S. Hall collection of George Frideric Handel

• Utah State University Frances Winton Champ Music Collection (Use template USU)
• University of Alabama (Use template UAla)
• Case Western Reserve Univ. Kulas Music Library‎ (Use template KML)
• Ball State University. ca.500dpi jpg files (Use template BSU)
• The New England Conservatory (Use template NEC)
• University of Virginia (Use template UVa)
• Louisiana State University About 3000 high-resolution scans (as of 2018 only available to Louisiana residents)
• Stanford University Libraries Has more than 400 high-resolution scores. Select Access=online and Resource type=Music score after you've obtained some results. Include purl into your search terms otherwise most results will be online for affiliated persons only.
• Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
• Vassar College The online collection includes the Landauer Longfellow Collection of approximately 300 pieces of sheet music featuring the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Use template Vassar)
• Brown University 3 historical American collections.
• New York Philharmonic digital archives Symphonic scores by great composers annotated by great conducters. Flash based. Beware of their derivative work status! (Use template NYPODA)
• Peabody Conservatory of Music (Use template US-BApi)
• University of Pittsburgh includes the Theodore M. Finney music library collection and the Stephen Foster collection. (Use template US-Pu)
• Cleveland Public Library (Use template US-CLp)
• Drake University Digital Collections (Use template DrakeU)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (Use template US-MAu)

Central American

• Música Colonial A very large collection of 17th and 18th Century manuscripts from Antigua Cathedral, Guatemala.

South American

• Biblioteca Nacional Digital (Brazil) search: partitura
• Música Brasilis (Brazil) Free sheet music distributed under the CC BY-SA license. When copyright is reserved, it is referred to the copyright holder. (Brazil)
• Tatuí Conservatory (Brazil) Hundreds of scores organized by group formation or instrument are provided by the Tatuí Conservatory.
• Casa do Choro Hundreds of Brazilian popular music scores organized by composer.
• Instituto Piano Brasileiro Lists, chronologies, biographies and other Brazilian piano related informations. Mantains a list of Brazilian piano's repertoire.
• Banco de Partituras do Núcleo de Estudos Musicológicos da Universidade Federal da Bahia Published sheet music composed, published or related to Bahia state.

Australian

• Australia's Music Online. Large collection of medium-resolution scans. Click 'print' to get pdf.
• National Library of Australia
• University of Sydney (use template USCL)

Canadian

• Sheet music from Canada's past
• McGill University Marvin Duchow Music Library. Small collection. Permission withdrawn?
• York University (Use template YorkU)

European

Austrian

• Mozarteum

Complete online edition of the Neue Mozart Ausgabe (New Mozart Complete Edition)!

• Schubert Online

Large collection of Schubert autographs. Watermarked.

• Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Use Template ONB)

• Digitized music manuscripts and other manuscript documents e.g. letters.
• Digitized printed sheet music
• ÖNB-HANNA-Katalog - Includes both collections above but some search results require an ONB account.
• QuickSearch Includes all ONB documents - digitized or not.

• Universitätsbibliothek Graz (Use Template A-Gu)
• Wienbibliothek has several manuscripts collections. Select "Handschriften" in the left column. (Use Template A-Wst)

Belgian

• Royal Library of Belgium. (Use Template B-Br)
• Universiteit Antwerpen University of Antwerp. Enter your search terms. When some results show up click Internet/Intranet in the left column. In a result page search the link at Digital platform Electronically available... Mainly popular Belgian music (Use Template KCA)
• University of Liège

British

• British Library main catalogue closed following a cyber-attack.

(Select Main Cataloge instead of Our Website top right. Once you obtain results for your search click Online. Select a work. Click Digital Content, Collection item, GO. You shoud see an image of the first page. To download a pdf, click Download, Select some or all.., Select all, Download. You can also download a jpg of each page.) (Use Template BrLib)

• British Library: Royal Holloway Digital Repository Has more than 300 scores from 16th C. Click 'File Viewer' to obtain a high resolution .jpg for each page. Some scores also have the complete pdf.
• Leeds University - Collection of Historical Annotated String Editions (CHASE) (Use Template Leeds)
• Bodleian libraries University of Oxford. Salon music of the Victorian period. Flash based. Click on Search or browse the collection in the right column, not Search this site on page top (use Template Bodleaian).

Czech Republic

• National library of the Czech republic Some scores, hidden among other ancient documents.
• the digital library of the Prague Municipal Library, click "Vstupte" (Enter), select "Dostupnost > pouze veřejné" (filter for Public Domain stuff), and click on the note symbol in the top bar ("Hudebniny" = "Sheet-music")

Danish

• Danish Royal Library a pdf collection (6200+) of mostly Danish composers. (Use template DKB).
  • use this search page in English
  • or this list

Finnish

• Sibelius Academy Nearly 1000 color pdf files (mostly manuscripts) including hundreds of manuscripts of Erkki Melartin. (Use Template SAK)

French

• Gallica, the digital Bibliothèque nationale de France pdf's of French composers (Use Template BNF). To obtain high-resolution images from this source see this page. Perhaps the advanced search page is simpler to use.
• City library of Versailles. Includes the Philidor collection.(Use Template BV)
• Library of Toulouse (Use Template BT)
• Université de Strasbourg Bibliothèque numérique patrimoniale. A few books and scores.
• Conservatory of Lyon Has two collections.
• Memoire vive Several collections at Besançon. Flash based. (Use Template BMB)

German

• Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Includes the catalogues of some - if not all - German libraries below.
• Mendelssohn School of Leipzig Same set of libraries? When you see the results uncheck IMSLP in the right column.
• Digital archives of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn (Use Template BeethBonn)
• Bavarian State Library. (Use Template BSB)

Massive collection of scans, among which fast-growing collection of scores, among which several Gesamtausgaben (Handel, Liszt, Mendelssohn).

• Baden State Library-Karlsruhe. (Use Template BLB)
• Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek (Use Template AAB)

Offerered by Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Click 'Suche' to see the search form in German. To download a 300-dpi image with Firefox, click these tabs: Web Developer, debugger, Console. When you magnify the image a lot you should see something like https://haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/rest/image/816786232/EPN_73827206X_0035.tif/0,0,1772,2048/1772,/0/default.jpg Copy-paste it into another browser window and change 0,0,1772,2048/1772 into 0,0,5000,5000. You should see a whole page you can save. The number before /600,1800,202,202 is the page number.

• SLUB Dresden (Use Template SLUB)

Instrumental music for the Dresdener Hofkapelle (Quantz, Telemann, Graun)

• Staatsbibliothek Berlin Uncheck alle aktivieren, check Musiknoten (Use Template SBB)
• Universität der Künste Berlin Document server: 746 documents.(Use Template UKB)
• Darmstadt library manuscripts (mainly Graupner) (Use Template ULB)
• Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena (Use Template ThULB)
• Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (Use Template ULBD)
• Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster (Use Template ULBM)
• Brahms Institut - watermarked Brahms early editions (Use Template BrahmsLub)
• Goethe-University in Frankfurt (Use Template GUF)
• Landesbibliothek Coburg (Use Template LBC)

Scores in PDF or JPG format can be found by searching the online catalog.

• University of Tübingen (Use Template UTub)

• Music manuscript collection
• Music collection of Jakob Friedrich Kick (1795-1882)

• Lippische Landesbibliothek (Use Template LLB)
• Wolfenbüttel Digital Library (Use Template WDB)
• Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (Use Template LBW)

• Direct link to music scores.

• Württembergische Landesbibliothek (Use Template WLS)

• Direct link to music scores.

• Hamburg Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek (Use Template HambSUL)
• Bonn University and State Library (Use Template ULBBonn). Includes the following collections: Digitized engraved music, Schumann autographs.
• Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Flash based (Use Template D-Bim)
• Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Use Template D-Mh)
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Digitale Bibliothek Flash based
• Universität Kassel (Use Template D-Kub)
• RosDok Rostock University Publication Server. Mainly manuscripts. (Use Template RosDok)

Hungarian

• Debrecen University (Use Template DU)

Italian

• Internet Culturale Italian digitized libraries. (Select Biblioteca digitale instead of Cataloghi. Use Template InternetCulturale)
• Conservatorio di Milano Flash based. To obtain high-resolution images from this source see this page. (Use Template Milan) If you obtain an error message when you type into the search field use OPAC SBN and click digitalizzati when you obtain the results.
• Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica do Bologna Has low-resolution jpg's. Check "riproduzioni digitali" in the search page. (Use Template Mibm-Bologna)
• Biblioteca nazionale di Napoli (Use Template BNN)

Netherlands: Dutch

• Nederlands Muziekinstituut Netherlands Library. Flash-based. Counts about 10 projects so far, some without scores.
• Muziekschatten: Muziekbibliotheek van de Openbare Omroep - Music Library of the Netherlands public broadcasting company. (Use Template MBO)

Norwegian

• Bergen public library

Grieg scores (Manuscripts)

• National Library of Norway (Use Template Nb)

Polish

• Digital Libraries Federation Combined search engine for the digital collections of over 80 Polish libraries
• Polish National Library (Use Template CBNPolona)
• Digital Library of University of Lodz (Use Template Lodz)
• Podlaska Digital Library (Use Template PDL)
• Biblioteka Elbląska (Use Template BE)
• Jagiellonian University (Use Template JagU)
• Pomeranian Digital Library (Use Template PBC)
• ZBC Pomerania (Use Template ZBCP)
• Wroclaw University (Use Template Wroclaw)
• Digital Library of Wielkopolska (Use Template WDL)
• Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library (Use Template K-PDL)
• Silesian Digital Library (Use Template SDL)
• Warsaw University Digital Library (Use Template UWarsaw)

Portuguese

• Biblioteca nacional de Portugal Click English flag and go to: Digital Library, Partituras. (Use Template BNP)
• Porto municipal library Has collections of images of Spanish and Portuguese organ pieces, ca.1600, some in Spanish tablature.

Russian

• Russian state library (Use Template RSL)
  • English search box

When you obtain results click Электронный ресурс below the work information. Leave the cursor on Онлайн-просмотр and click the lowest button. You should see all the pages in miniature. Click on the top right button. In the new window with 2 buttons, click the right one. Your browser will give you the choice to open or save the pdf.

Scottish

• National Library of Scotland 3 small collections.

Spanish

• Library of Spain (BNE) Has various scanned parts, scores, etc. (Use Template BDH)
  • Digitized opera scores
  • Digitized music scores
• Digital Memory of Catalonia (Use Template DMC)
  • Scores from the Societat Coral Erato de Figueres
  • Scores from the collection of the pianist Carles G. Vidiella
  • Scores of Isaac Albéniz
  • Scores from the collection of Josep Martí i Cristià
  • Scores from the Cathedral of Barcelona
  • Scores of Pep Ventura
  • Printed scores of Catalan composers
  • Manuscript scores of Catalan composers
  • Scores of Ramon Serrat i Fajula
  • Sheet music from the Biblioteca de Catalunya

• Biblioteca de Catalunya (Use Template BNC). Note: this collection now appears to have been incorporated into the Digital Memory of Catalonia site.
  • Use this list Mostly Catalan composers
  • Another list Has Spanish organ collections
• Real conservatorio superior de musica de Madrid Digital collection of the library. Lots of ca. 1700 manuscripts. (Use Template RCSM)|
• Museu de la Música de Barcelona (Use Template E-Bmi).

Swedish

• Music Library of Sweden (Use Template SMB)
• Uppsala University
• Utile Dulci Classical works.

Swiss

• E-manuscripta Contains digitized music manuscripts from various Swiss libraries. (Use Template Emanus)
• E-rara Contains digitized engraved music from various Swiss libraries. (Use Template Erara)
• Bibliothèque de Genève Geneva library. Click Uniquement documents numérisés once you obtain some search results. Use Template BibGen
• Bibliothèque du Conservatoire de Musique de Genève

Japanese

• Nanki Music Library

Other

• European-American University, Henselt Archive 19th C. piano music. (Use template Henselt)
• Europeana collections European libraries. All of them?
• The Internet Archive Some scores, hidden among other documents. Scores transferred from IMSLP to archive.org may be found here. Also some scores scanned by Google have been transferred here. Prominent among libraries contributing music scores to archive.org are the following:

• American Vernacular Music Manuscripts, ca.1730-1910
• Boston Library Consortium
• Boston Public Library
• Brigham Young University
• Connecticut College: Historic Sheet Music Collection
• Folkscanomy: Music
• Gaylord Music Library (Washington University)
• National Library of Scotland
• New York Public Library
• Oberlin Conservatory Library Special Collections
• Royal College of Music, London
• Sydney Living Museums: Domestic Sheet Music and Manuscripts
• University of California libraries
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Toronto
  • Canadian Sheet Music from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music Library
• University of Western Ontario
  • The Drs. Whitby Music Collection at the University of Western Ontario

(Use template IArchS)