Online Music Scores
This is a guide to online sources for digital copies of music scores.
Digital Scores: Composer-Specific Collections
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Bach: Werke (IMSLP)A digitized version of Bach's complete works, published from 1851 to 1899 by the Bach-Gesellschaft and Breitkopf & Härtel.
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Beethoven-Haus Bonn: Digital ArchivesProvides scanned images of manuscripts and early editions of Beethoven’s works, as well as letters, photographs, and other related documents.
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Beethoven: Werke (IMSLP)A digitized version of Beethoven's complete works, published from 1864 to 1890 by Breitkopf & Härtel.
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Brahms-Institut: Digitale BeständeThis German-language site of the Brahms-Institut in Lübeck provides scanned images of first and early editions of Brahms’s works.
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Chopin: Early Editions (University of Chicago)Includes digitized images of over 400 first and early printed editions of Chopin's compositions.
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Handel: Werke (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)An online version of the Händel-Gesellschaft edition of Handel’s complete works, produced by Chrysander between 1858 and 1902.
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Liszt: Musikalische Werke (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)A digitized version of Liszt’s Musikalische Werke, a complete edition published by Breitkopf & Härtel from 1907 through 1936.
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Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Werke (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)A digitized version of Mendessohn’s complete works, as edited by Julius Rietz and published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1874-77.
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Mozart: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum & Packard Humanities Institute)A digitized version of the musical text and critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.
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Nielsen: Carl Nielsen Edition (Danish Centre for Music Publication)Allows free downloads of selected scores from the complete Nielsen Edition.
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Schubert: Manuskripte (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus)Contains digital reproductions of more than 500 autograph scores and letters of Franz Schubert. Site can be viewed in German or English.
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Schubert: Werke (IMSLP)A digitized version of Schubert's complete works, as published by Breitkopf & Härtel from 1884 through 1897.
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Schumann: Autographs (Bonn University Library)Provides digital scans of selected Schumann musical autographs, as well as sketchbooks and correspondence.
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Schumann: Werke (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)A digital reproduction of the Breitkopf & Härtel edition of Schumann's complete works edited by Clara Schumann and published from 1879 to 1893.
Last Updated: Jun 10, 2025 12:22 PM
Subjects: Arts
Tags: digital scores, musical scores, sheet music