free Mozart scores online

rh · Post by rh » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:00 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061212/en ... 1212135052

Sheet music of all Mozart's works online for his 250th anniversary

Tue Dec 12, 8:50 AM ET

VIENNA (AFP) - Sheet music of all of Mozart's works is now available online for free, following an initiative by Salzburg's International Foundation Mozarteum in honour of the 250th anniversary of his birth.

"With over 400,000 hits on the website in the first 12 hours, one can say demand surpassed our expectations," Mirjam Nellman, spokeswoman for the foundation, based in Mozart's birthplace of Salzburg, told AFP Tuesday.

"The server is a little slow at the moment because of strong demand, but we are working on it," she added.

The unique initiative, entitled NMA Online -- for "Neue Mozart Ausgabe," or new Mozart edition -- was launched with the help of the Packard Humanities Institute in Los Altos, California.

"The purpose of this web site is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use," the Mozarteum said in a statement.

The website draws from the original Neue Mozart Ausgabe paper version developed since 1954 by internationally renowned musicologists and comprising over 125 booklets of sheet music, whose origin has been painstakingly authenticated, the Salzburg foundation said.

The "Digital Mozart Edition" (DME) website -- http://dme.mozarteum.at -- features over 600 works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, separated into ten categories, from concertos for orchestra to chamber music and pieces for piano.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:04 am

This waaaaaay cool! I can't even imagine anything cooler!

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:07 am

Joseph E. Smith wrote:I can't even imagine anything cooler!

Not even free Celtic Women scores online?

fyffer · Post by **fyffer** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:10 am

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Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:17 am

Same thing here... bummer.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:18 am

jsluder wrote:
Joseph E. Smith wrote:I can't even imagine anything cooler!
Not even free Celtic Women scores online?

Waaaaay cooler, dood!

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:21 am

I wonder if they have ABCs?

djm

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:23 am

might be a swamped server...
The Google archive comes up with that address.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:46 pm

I svear this is vat it says . . .

NOTE: We are overvelmed by the resonance of this website. We regret any delays in accessing this site and are working on expanding our server capacities

Good stuff!

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:53 pm

Would all the sight reading piano players here please step forward.

The site works fine for me.. but all those dots...

Slan,
D.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:18 pm

oh sure!!!

Now that most of the Europeans have left work...

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:07 am

Finally got in... way coooool, the coolest!

I'm a fool for a Mozart Piano Concerto.

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:35 am

my favorite Mozart score is

Mozart 17, Salieri 2

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:37 am

I can get to the scores but they're just red X's. Ummmm.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:48 am

For my birthday in November I requested (and received) the complete piano concertos (27) by Mozart. I chose the edition played by Murray Perahia and the English Chamber Orchestra. It is like I enter another world when I become absorbed in this music. I love it. #21 is heavenly.

For Christmas I am expecting to get the complete symphonies of Mahler, another one of my favorites.