IMSLP:Universities and Libraries

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Universities and Libraries

American

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

Central American

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

South American

Australian

Canadian

European

Austrian
Complete online edition of the Neue Mozart Ausgabe (New Mozart Complete Edition)!
Large collection of Schubert autographs. Watermarked.
Belgian
British

(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)

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
Finnish
  • Sibelius Academy Nearly 1000 color pdf files (mostly manuscripts) including hundreds of manuscripts of Erkki Melartin. (Use Template SAK)
French
German
Massive collection of scans, among which fast-growing collection of scores, among which several Gesamtausgaben (Handel, Liszt, Mendelssohn).
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.
Instrumental music for the Dresdener Hofkapelle (Quantz, Telemann, Graun)
Scores in PDF or JPG format can be found by searching the online catalog.
Hungarian
Italian
Netherlands: Dutch
Norwegian
Grieg scores (Manuscripts)
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
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
Spanish
Swedish
Swiss

Japanese

Other

(Use template IArchS)