A selection of manuscripts and published scores
Collected Editions
- Digital collections of the Brahms Institut
- Deutsche Händel-Gesellschaft - digitised Handel edition (Chrysander’s 1858-1902 edition)
- Franz Liszt Musical Works, Carl-Alexander Edition, 34 volumes
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Breitkopf & Härtel edition (1812-1877) in 157 volumes
- Neue Mozart Ausgabe – digitised Mozart edition
- Robert Schumann – digitised Breitkopf & Härtel edition (1879-1893)
Other scores
- Boosey & Hawkes Online Scores
- Cantorion Sheet Music Collection (primarily contains music in public domain of mainstream Baroque or Classical composers)
- Chopin’s First Editions Online
- Online Chopin Variorum Edition
- Choral Public Domain Library
- Digital scores collection from the Loeb Music Library at Harvard
- Early Music Online (more than 300 scores of 16th century music)
- International Harp Archives (at the Brigham Young University)
- International Music Score Library Project – digital archive of 15,000 music scores in the public domain
- It’s Showtime! Sheet Music from Stage and Screen – from the Library of Congress
- MuseData – digital archive of classical music scores (Access: you will prompted to create a user ID and password)
- Yiddish Sheet Music from the John Hay Library at Brown University
Manuscripts
- DIAMM: Digital archive of medieval music
- The Wiesbaden (“Giant”) Codex (Hildegard of Bingen)
- Juilliard Manuscript Collection – digital archive of 138 autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers’ proofs and first editions (needs Adobe’s Flash Player)
- Manuscripts from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- e-codices: virtual manuscript library of Switzerland
- Links to online music manuscripts by Musikwissenschaftliches Institut in Basel
- Music Treasures Consortium, links to online music manuscripts (and printed music) from collections around the world
- Bach Digital: a digital library consisting of Johann Sebastian Bach’s autograph manuscripts and original parts
- British Library virtual books
- Internet culturale
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