Music Scores Online: Classical Collections

Printed and manuscript music from The Royal Library in Denmark. Includes the complete Carl Nielsen critical edition.

Rare or unique manuscripts, first editions, and early editions from the 17th to the early 20th century.

Tens of thousands of scores and recordings in the public domain.

From the Munich DigitiZation Center. Includes thousands of manuscripts, scores, and librettos from all time periods, mainly by German composers.

Digitized facsimiles of over 600 manuscripts by various composers. Online-view only for works still protected by copyright.

Digitized manuscripts, prints, and early editions from 15 U.S. and international libraries. Most images available for download.

Wide assortment of Brazilian classical music. Some works are only available as previews.

Recordings, sheet music, and other educational materials, without copyright restrictions.

Classical music editions in the public domain or under Creative Commons licenses.

Digitized scores and books in the public domain. Many are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection and no longer available for sale.

Over 3000 digitized scores by women composers, mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Online perusal scores by composers from the Baroque to present day. Create a free account to view online.

Online perusal scores from many publishers, including:
     Breitkopf & Härtel
     Durand Salabert Eschig
     Edition Juliane Klein
     Edition Peters and Edition Peters Perusal
     Ricordi
     Wise Music Group (Chester, Novello, Schirmer, etc.)

Collection of 140 autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers' proofs, and first editions.

Digitized scores and parts marked by NYPhil conductors and musicians, programs, photographs, and business documents.

Indiana University's experimental prototype. Public domain music for selected opera scenes, songs, orchestral and choral literature, chamber music, piano music.

This website provides full scores and parts to thousands of works for band, focusing on public domain music from the 1880s through 1924.

Public domain sheet music. Auto-generated IPA transcriptions are available for German, French, Italian, and Latin songs.

Scores, texts, translations, and composer information. Particularly useful for mainstream pieces from the Renaissance through the Romantic era.

Public domain musicals and operas, made available through the Internet Archive by the University of Illinois.

Operas, arias, Lieder, French melodies, and English songs. Most printed scores cost about $1.00, or buy a subscription for unlimited access.

A collection of 3,600 scores and parts from 18th-century symphonies. A catalog of the collection is available online, and includes links to digitized copies of over half the collection.

Nearly 1,000 guitar works, mostly comprised of early 19th century printed editions and manuscripts.

Nearly 5,000 open access scores from the Contemporary Score Edition series and the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores.

Videos of contemporary music scores along with accompanying recordings. Also see their sister channel, Incipitsify

A collection of 3,600 scores and parts from 18th-century symphonies. A catalog of the collection is available online, and includes links to digitized copies of over half the collection.

Compositions that have remained unpublished or that are not available commercially. Provided by the Society of Seventeenth-Century Music.

Digitized copies of 300 volumes of 16th-century music, made available by the British Library.

Digital scans of manuscripts (including music) located in the BnF. Most music manuscripts are from the 16th century.

Digitized versions of the medieval holdings of the Episcopal and Cathedral Library Cologne. To switch to English, select the Optionen tab at the top of the page and click the circle next to Englisch.

Information on all known collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts, as well as number of digitized facsimiles of these manuscripts. Free registration required to view images.