LibGuides: Music: Classical Music

Classical Music Databases

IMSLP: Petrucci Music Library
A digital library of public domain music scores. Free sheet music, scores from composers who share their work, Includes forums for discussion about musical works and analysis. It includes public domain and licensed recordings to allow for study by ear.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library
The database covers a diverse range of genres including choral works, symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde with over 600,000 pages of scores and manuscripts.
International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM)
Music manuscripts are listed in the online database of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. Currently, this data gets enriched, edited, and updated regularly. (Bach)
Naxos: Your Online Guide to Orchestral and Chamber Music
Find all the relevant information you need: instrumentation, playing time, year of composition, composer biographies, introduction texts, and much more.
Schubert Online
The online database www.schubert-online.at provides free online access to digital images of more than 500 music manuscripts and more than 600 first and early editions of works by Franz Schubert.

Bach Digital
The Bach Archive owns a comprehensive collection of musical sources to works of J. S. Bach and his family in the form of paper copies and microfilms. These sources are recorded in the musicological database Bach Digital.
Musicalics: The Classical Composers Database
Welcome to Musicalics, the classical music composers archive. Here you can find information about more than 26 thousand composers and over 700 thousand compositions.
Mozart at Harvard
The BMEO was established in 1987 to serve as an incentive for the development of Harvard as a center of Mozart research. The collection was assembled by Dr. Eric Offenbacher over nearly 40 years.
Neue Schubert Ausgabe Database
Schubert’s embellished versions and marked-up compositions are included in the appendix to the musical volume, provided that they originated in Schubert’s circle and thus at least purportedly bear his sanction.
Chopin's First Editions Online (CFEO)
The project’s chief aim was to create an online resource uniting all of the first impressions of Chopin’s first editions in an unprecedented virtual collection.

Concertgebouworkest : Conducting Videos
With its illustrious sound, the Concertgebouworkest has been one of the very best orchestras in the world for over 130 years.
Everything Conducting
Below is a non-exhaustive list of additional (mostly) online resources that may come in handy throughout your professional career.
Recorded Sound Research Center
Conducting research at the Library of Congress, using sound recordings.
Conducting : Classic FM
The Worlds Music. Digital Radio 100-102FM.