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IMSLP
Petrucci Music Library
IMSLP logo (2007-2015).png
Type of site
Music score library
Available in Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Owner Project Petrucci LLC
Created by Edward W. Guo (Feldmahler)
Website imslp.org; petruccilibrary.org
Commercial no
Registration Optional (required for contributing)
Launched February 16, 2006
Current status Online; Reopened (June 30, 2008)
(Closed October 19, 2007 – June 29, 2008)

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on wikis.

Current operation

IMSLP states on its site that it is owned by Project Petrucci LLC. Physical contact information is provided, listing only an address in the United States.

Similar projects

  • Choral Public Domain Library: focused on choral and vocal music.
  • Musopen: focused on recordings.
  • Mutopia Project: focused on typeset scores.
  • Werner Icking Music Archive: contains mainly early music. (It was merged with IMSLP)

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See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Proyecto Biblioteca Internacional de Partituras Musicales para niños

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