Classical Music Sheets links
All of the sheets are free for private use. However, if you want to perform in public or if you want to sell printed copies you should pay attention to the small print. In most countries the copyright of the composer expires 70 years after his death. But the person who digitized the sheets may have added additional restrictions.
The sheets are offered in many different formats. Some are displayed by your browser. Other, such as Postscipt and Lilypond files need special programs to get them displayed. As far as I know all these programs are available for free on the internet. Most websites have a good explanation were to find the programs that you need in order to read their files. Several sites offer a choice from different formats. Some also offer the possibility to listen to a midi version.
If you are looking for sheets you could also consider midi files. With the right kind of program you can see them as scores. Not all midi files contain all the details of the original scores, but many do. And midi files are often easier to find as sheets.
The Choral Public Domain Library
3200 chorals: that makes quite a songbook!
IMSLP
The International Music Score Library Project with over 8000 works.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
This is a collection of the Library of Congres in the US. It contains sheets of 47000 pieces of music and offers also a possibility to listen to a midi rendition. It contains all kinds of music - classic is only a small minority.
Werner Icking Music Archive
This was formerly known as the GMD Music Archive. The archive contains about 5000 mostly classical music sheets. It tries to standardize on the PDF format.
Sheet Music Archive
One of the big sites.
Sheet Music Fox
Another big archive.
ePartitura
A Brazilian site
Acadia early music archive
Some sonatas but mostly songs. From all works there are eps (postscript) files. From some also pdf's.
KeyStave
Mainly sheets with pieces for individual instruments. But also the complete 5th of Beethoven.
Rowy
Free classical & new classical sheet music.
Julliard manuscript collection
A collection of 168 scanned original manusripts. It is a flash site and I couldn't find a way to download the files.
Sheetmusic USA
Most of the sheets offered here are not classical, so you have to do a bit of searching.
Metronimo
This site is in French. But the interface is so simple that you won't mind it even if you don't speak a word of french. Quite a nice collection!
Music-scores.com
Another free sheet collection that also advertises for the commercial
Free Sheetmusic from Johan Tufvesson
Sheets of Albinoni, Telemann and a couple of mostly rather unknown composers from around 1700.
Kirchenmusik Online
Resources for church choirs and other people interested in religious music.
Sheetmusic online
A lot of free sheets from a site that makes money with selling sheets.
Musica Viva
4000 sheets. Also a lot of links to other sheet sites.
Musick's Handmade: Early music web resources
A large collection of medieval and renaissance sheets, both as jpg and midi file. Mostly - but not only - lute music.
The Mutopia Project
This project tries to be for music what the Gutenberg project is for books. With 223 pieces of music it is a rather small archive.
Aria Database
Search here for the texts of songs from opera's, etc. The interface is a bit messy, but there is a lot of content.
William and Gayle Cook Music Library
These are scanned GIF files from the whole music books, including the covers. Click on the follow up screen on "view online copy".
Charlie's piano
A lot of sheets and midi files.
Ensemble Vocal Pythagore
Some old (Byrd, Tallis, etc.) music in different formats.
Classical.net
More links to sheets and midi files.
Free-scores.com
Links to sheets and mp3 sites.
Free Sheet Piano Music
At the time of writing a beginning site with a restricted collection.
Vibhas Archive
A collection of sheet music in .MUS format (to open or edit with free-to-download Notepad 2006).
PD-info
Information on music and copyright. With special attention to public domain music. Many links to sites with public domain sheet music.
Old Music
Another extensive collection of links to free sheetmusic sites.
Cipoo
A hosting site of free sheet music, midi files and NWC scores with about a dozen contributors.
Piano Passion's guide to search free sheet music
Open directory
Freesheetmusic.Net
CIPOO links
Free Sheet Music webring
Free sheet music Guide
Vocalist sheetmusic guide
Links to more sites with classical music sheets.
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