The Internet is full of interesting things; for example, many scores music, even non-saleable ones! But where and how can you find them?
Digitized Music Manuscripts – General Collections (A-Z):
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek – 2’903 music manuscripts
- Biblioteca Digital Hispánica – 4’921 music manuscripts
- Cantigas Medievais Galego-Portuguesas
- cpdl.org – Over 100 facsimiles in the Choral Public Domain Library
- e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland, 221 music manuscripts
- e-manuscripta Platform for digitized handwritten sources from Swiss libraries and archives
- IDEM – Database for old music
- imslp – International Music Score Library Project: 13’729 music manuscripts
- Italienische Bibliothek – Digital collection, 1’084 music manuscripts
- Juilliard Manuscript Collection – Collection of 140 autograph manuscripts, sketches, engraving proofs and first editions
- Medieval Music Database – 4 Complete manuscripts
- Manuscriptorium – Freely accessible digital library, historical resources, not only scores music
- Morgan Library – U.a. Werke von J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Faure, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Puccini, Schubert and Schumann
- Music Gifts for the Russian Emperors – Music Collection of the National Library of Russia
- Music Treasures Consortium – Online access to music manuscripts and print materials from the most renowned music archives
- Orfeus – Manuskripte and Chor Bücher
- National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen – contains handwritten Danish and other scores music – over 20’000 units
- Saxon State Library (SLUB), Dresden – 8’415 entries with focus on the music manuscripts of the famous Dresdner Hofkapelle
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – 3’300 manuscripts
- Yale Library – Yale University Library, exclusive collections of music manuscripts
- Composer Collections:
- Arriaga – Works, manuscripts, autographs and edited scores.
- Bach Digital – Scans of works of the Bach family, including 90% of works by J. S. Bach
- Beethoven
- Beethoven House
- Music manuscripts, sketches and music prints
- Letters and written documents
- Images and objects
- Beethovens Workshop – Digitized works by Beethoven (experimental prototype)
- Berg, Alban – 162 online issues of the Austrian National Library
- Brahms-Institute
- Bruckner Online – Handwritings
- Cage, John – The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in collaboration with the John Cage Trust and the editor C. F. Peters
- Cipriano de Rore – Motets (Choir Book)
- Chopin Varorium Edition – Images of the manuscripts and first editions of selected works by Chopin
- Copland – Manuscripts, sketches, documents for discussions, personal photos (approx. 5’000 pieces), childhood memories and letters
- Distler, Hugo – 181 titles from the Bavarian State Library
- Duchenim, Nicolas – based on the sixteen movements of chansons published between 1549 and 1568
- Grieg, Edvard – Music, letters and related materials in the Bergen Public Library
- Händels Messias – Virtual original book from the British Library
- Haydn, Michael – 181 titles from the Bavarian State Library
- Jensen, Adolf – 75 titles from the Bavarian State Library
- Kirchner
- Lully – scores, manuscripts and libretti of operas, ballets and plays
- Mahler – 30 titles from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- Mendelssohn – Letters, lithographs, printed manuscripts
- Mozart
- Mozart Diary – Virtual original book from the British Library
- Mozarteum – Letters from and to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in facsimile
- Mozart Letters to Sebastian Winter
- Orff, Carl – 91 titles from the Bavarian State Library
- Pleyel, Ignaz – Over 200 early printed manuscripts
- Reger, Max – 40 titles from the Bavarian State Library
- Rheinberger, Josef – 666 titles from the Bavarian State Library
- Schönberg – Overview of Schönberg’s work, thinking and life
- Schubert Online – Letters and manuscripts, with digital watermark
- Spohr, Louis – Letters from the estate
- Strauss
- Thomas Luis de Victoria – Facsimile
- Vogler, Georg Joseph – 78 titles from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- Wagner – 173 titles from the Bavarian State Library
- Weber
- Wolf, Hugo – 16 music autographs and letters from Hugo Wolf
- Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno – 177 titles from the Bavarian State Library
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