Free scores for classical guitar and piano (links)

Free scores

Guitar

Piano

Several instruments

- Links checked on 16 May 2008 -

The GIF, JPG, TIFF, TGA and PNG scores are directly printable

The PDF files are to be opened with the freeware Acrobat Reader

The NWC files are to be opened with the freeware NoteWorthy Player

The freewares Ghostscript et GSview - used together - will open the PostScript files

The ENC files are to be opened with the software Encore and the SIB files with the software Sibelius

A little piece of advice: avoid websites which force you to click on the banner of a

and "offer" you only score substitutes without nuances, without fingering, without a nice layout, without creation

, in short without soul. No music should be disfigured like this.
Fortunately, here are other websites:

Guitar

The Guitar School (Sveinn Eythorsson & Eythor Thorlaksson) (over 1,800 pages in PDF format)

Jubing's Free Classical Guitar Music (GIF)

Guitarathome (John Anthony) (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Les éditions du pirate (Jean-Michel Calas) (personal compositions and transcriptions) (JPG or PDF)

ALi's webstek (Alfons Lievens) (PDF)

Serge Arbiol (personal compositions) (PDF)

Vincenzo de Simone (PDF)

Jamal Zohourian (personal compositions) (PDF)

Guitare Finger Style (Frédéric Mesnier) (personal compositions) (PDF scores/tablatures or to be opened with the freeware TablEdit File Viewer )

Nicolas de Rigal (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF or ENC)

Guitar DownUnder (Bill Tyers) (GIF or PDF)

openguitar.com (David Raleigh Arnold) (pedagogical pieces and personal compositions) (PDF)

ClassicGuitare.com (Paulo da Fontoura) (forum offering a large number of scores in various formats)

Gitarrenmusik und Gitarrenunterricht in Saarbruecken (Lars Ortmann) (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Peter Berlind Carlson Homepage (PDF)

Lee Sollory (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Guitarrerias de Buenos Aires (PDF)

Emiel Stöpler (personal compositions) (PDF)

Domenico Terribili (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Boije Collection (The Music Library of Sweden) (a large number of PDF scores)

Guitar Loot (Eric Crouch) (transcriptions for guitar of Renaissance and baroque lute music) (PDF scores or to be opened with the free Scorch plug-in)

Bach for Guitar in Tablature (Alan Melvin) (PDF scores/tablatures or to be opened with the freeware TablEdit File Viewer)

Hans-Friedrich Pfeiffer (personal compositions) (JPG)

Mauro Giuliani (including facsimile of Giuliani's compositions) (PDF)

Classical Guitar Partiture Archive (scores in various formats)

philguitar café (Philippe Barrilliez) (personal compositions and transcriptions) (scores/tablatures to be opened with the software programs TablEdit File Viewer (free) or Guitar Pro)

klassiskgitar.net (PDF)

Guitarra Latinoamericana y Música Colombiana (Jaime Romero) (personal compositions) (PDF scores or to be opened with the freeware Myriad Music Plug-In)

Early Music For Classical Guitar (PDF)

Enrique Kaliski (personal compositions) (PDF)

Gitarren Ensemble Graz (GIF or PDF)

Liturgical Guitarist (Jim Nailon) (Christian music) (scores to be opened with the free Scorch plug-in)

Georges Raillard (personal compositions) (PDF)

Geoffrey Brunt (personal compositions) (JPG)

The Carmel Classic Guitar Society (GIF or PDF)

New Classical Guitar Music (Kevin Germain) (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Chat Bada Musique (Yves Kéroas) (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF scores or scores/tablatures to be opened with the freeware TablEdit File Viewer)

Vincenzo Pocci Web Page (PDF)

Derek Hasted's Guitar Ensemble Website (GIF or PDF)

Thomas Königs Classical Guitar and Lute (PDF)

Brazil on Guitar (Baden Powell's compositions) (PDF)

Oscar Cárdenas (personal compositions) (PDF)

Stanley Yates (PDF)

Andrei Krylov (personal compositions and transcriptions) (GIF, JPG or PDF)

Mustafa Kemal Düzgören (on Free-Scores.com) (PDF scores/tablatures)

Mustafa Kemal Düzgören's Private Web Site

Minami Huhu Home Page (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Syukhtun Editions (Theo Radic) (PDF)

Classical Guitar Tablature (Kevin J. Manges) (GIF or PDF scores/tablatures)

Guitargalaxy (Thomas Seeck) (TIFF)

new millennium Classical Guitar Publishing Co. (personal compositions and transcriptions) (GIF)

Accent on Music (Mark Hanson) (PDF)

Stuntzner.Brent.org (jazz transcriptions) (GIF or JPG)

Composition of the Season (Uwe Warneke) (personal compositions) (GIF)

Robert Lampis (personal compositions) (GIF)

Vesa Pölkki (personal compositions and transcriptions) (GIF)

Thomas Scharkowski's Home Page (personal compositions and J.S. Bach Suites) (PDF)

Delcamp.net international (PDF)

René Senn (GIF or PDF)

Javier Bravo, Guitarist and Composer (PDF)

gitarrenmethodik-didaktik.de (D. Hasselmeyer) (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

David Coester Meantone (music from the nineteenth century) (PDF)

DOS Amigos Home Page (Hans Oosterwal & Mark de Gooijer) (PDF)

Classical guitar music (Bert Alink) (personal compositions and transcriptions) (GIF)

Fernando Sor - l'intégrale (Patrick Navarro) (including the facsimile of all Sor's compositions) (GIF)

Perso Flamenco (a great deal of flamenco and classical scores collected by Victor Reny)

La Guitarra Clásica (Eduardo Barrientos) (GIF, JPG, TIFF, TGA or PDF)

Die Gitarrenschule Biebertal (Michael Bierschenk) (PDF)

Notes à diffusion interne (Dominique Charpagne) (PDF)

milaresolsimi.com (large number of links collected by Michel Dalle Ave)

Makoto-San's Classical Guitar Homepage (GIF)

Hebe's Web (Fernando Sor complete works + some scores for voice) (PDF)

Dirk's Guitar Page (Dirk Meineke) (PDF scores/tablatures or to be opened with the freeware TablEdit File Viewer)

Jeff Covey's homepage (PDF, PNG, PostScript scores or to be opened with the freeware LilyPond)

Guitar-Directory.com (large number of links collected by Victor Reny)

Jorge Guillen Classical Guitar Archives (GIF)

The Guitarist (John Philip Dimick) (GIF)

Jan-Olof Eriksson - Classical Guitar (transcriptions) (PDF)

YASU toshi Guitar Diary (JPG)

Site Internet de Gérard Rebours (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Le coin des guitaristes (Philippe Renaud) (PDF tablatures or scores/tablatures to be opened with the freeware TablEdit File Viewer)

À propos de guitare... (François Castet) (GIF)

Guitare en Gironde (Michel Dalle Ave) (scores/tablatures to be opened with the freeware TablEdit File Viewer)

Classical Guitar - Peter Vink (PDF or SIB)

Jürg Hochweber's Guitar Works (GIF or PDF)

Fabrice Holvoet (GIF or PDF)

Nemo James-Singer/Songwriter (TIFF)

Richard Yates' Classical Guitar Transcriptions (PDF)

seicorde.it - Free Downloadable Music (PDF)

Guitartition (Patrick Navarro) (over 500 pages in GIF format)

Classical Guitar Music on the Web (large number of links collected by Larry Deack, and previously by Stefan Kebekus)

I offer you a copy of this currently unavailable page

Yet another Guitar Page (GIF)

Acoustic music (Dominique Rivière) (celtic music for guitar and bouzouki) (PDF scores/tablatures or to be opened with the freeware TablEdit File Viewer)

Piano

Pian e forte (PDF)

Piano 1001 (PDF)

Parlor Songs (popular music from the 1800s to the 1920s) (scores to be opened with the free Scorch plug-in)

Chopin Early Editions (University of Chicago) (JPG)

Renaissance Music Society (works of Theodor Leschetizky) (JPG)

Piano Society (PDF)

PianoPublicDomain.com (compulsory registration) (PDF)

Norman Schmidt's Home Page (PDF)

ALL PIANO SCORES (PDF)

Piano Street (compulsory registration) (PDF)

Benjamin Intartaglia et le Ragtime français (PDF)

Free Piano Sheet Music (PDF)

Pianolessen bij Marcel Manshanden (PDF)

New Standards for Piano (Ned Gerhart) (personal compositions) (PDF)

www.piano.ru (over 1,300 PDF files)

Rob van Loef (transcriptions) (PDF)

All Piano Sheet Music (PDF)

Sketchee Music Archive (Brian E. Young) (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Walter Jacobi (personal compositions) (scores to be opened with the free Scorch plug-in)

Dario Galimberti Home Page (PDF) (unavailable on 16 May 2008)

EasySheetMusic (popular, classical and jazz) (PDF)

Joe Hisaishi (personal compositions) (GIF, JPG or PNG) (unavailable on 16 May 2008)

The Sheet Music Archive (PDF)

Klavierunterricht-Wiesbaden.de (PDF)

MyFreeSheetMusic (Brazilian music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) (PDF scores or to be opened with the free Scorch plug-in)

Gilbert DeBenedetti (PDF)

noelnoelnoel.com (Christmas carols) (GIF)

Ben Marcato music (Eltjo de Lang) (personal compositions) (PDF)

Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (Sylvain M. Chosson) (PDF)

analytical Q (a lot of personal compositions, most of them for piano) (GIF or PDF)

Sheet Music Online - Public Domain Music (PDF)

Piano World - Free Piano Sheet Music (large number of links)

Several instruments

Roberto Di Marino (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Víctor Carbajo, Composer (piano, oboe, flute, voice, etc.) (PDF)

Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe / Digital Mozart Edition) (PDF)

Clark Ross's Composition Homepage (personal compositions) (PDF)

e-partitions.fr (Jean-Gabriel Gillard) (organ, voice) (PDF)

UR Research (University of Rochester) (over 1,300 scores in PDF format)

Métronimo (PDF)

McCracken Middle School Band (transcriptions for wind instruments) (PDF)

John Webber (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Whichpond Music (transcriptions for wind instruments) (PDF)

John Wesley Barker blog (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF scores or to be opened with the free Scorch plug-in)

Steph.eLuna.org (Stéphane Dupont) (guitar, piano / personal compositions) (PDF)

Adriano Amore (clarinet) (PDF)

Adrian Cuello (choral scores / personal compositions) (PDF)

lespartitions.info (over 1,100 scores in PDF format)

The Music of Jeff Harrington (personal compositions) (PDF)

Site officiel de Gerardo Di Giusto (personal compositions) (PDF)

Inventions Of Note (Lewis Music Library) (popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies) (PDF)

École Nationale de Musique et de Danse de Grand Couronne et Petit Couronne (PDF)

The E. Azalia Hackley Collection (over 600 pieces from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) (JPG)

cipoo.net (over 1,000 choral scores) (PDF or NWC)

Free Sheetmusic Library (then open the first link under the second left-hand picture) (orchestra, chamber music, piano, organ) (PDF)

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) (over 9,000 public domain musical scores) (PDF)

Website closed because of the intransigeance of Universal Edition

Steve Hendricks Music Collection (principally Renaissance scores) (PDF)

freeldssheetmusic.com (Aaron Waite) (principally voice and piano / Christian music) (PDF)

Dennis Wu (personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

The Clarinet Institute of Los Angeles (clarinet scores) (PDF)

music-partitions (Robert Meis) (personal compositions and transcriptions for brass instruments) (PDF) (unavailable on 16 May 2008)

SheetMusicFox.com (public domain sheet music principally for piano, orchestra and chamber music) (a large number of PDF scores)

Adriano Secco Music (choral scores / personal compositions and transcriptions) (PDF)

Les musiciens de Mlle de Guise (Laurence Pottier) (works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier and his contemporaries) (PDF)

UBI SUNT? (choral scores) (PDF)

Partituras Oboe (oboe scores) (PDF)

catholic.lv (vocal Christian music) (PDF, SIB or ENC)

Det Kongelige Bibliotek (royal Danish library) (a large number of PDF scores)

Capotasto Music (PDF)

An Online Christmas Songbook (Christmas carols) (GIF)

Simone Olivieri's Music (vocal Christian music) (PDF or NWC)

ComSonante (choral scores) (PDF)

Gotta Sing... (Donna Ankney) (vocal Christian music) (PDF scores or to be opened with the freeware Finale NotePad)

Magnolia Arts.com (Tim Brace) (guitar, voice) (PDF)

Manfreds Notenpool (Manfred Hößl) (choral and instrumental works) (MUS)

solanomusic.com (ENC)

Obra do Maestro Waldemar Henrique (songs) (ENC)

Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (Stanford University) (Bach, Händel, Mozart, Vivaldi) (PDF)

La Mia Musica (Marco Voli) (vocal Christian music) (PDF or NWC)

kantoreiarchiv.de (Helmut Kickton) (most of them choral works) (PDF)

Project Gutenberg (large number of scores in various formats)

Leo Ornstein (piano, chamber music) (PDF)

FreeMusicScore (Alan Cruise-Johnston & Vincent James) (piano, voice) (PDF or JPG)

Son ha Ton (Pierre Quentel) (traditional Breton songs) (GIF)

music-scores.com (PDF)

Bach Cantatas Website (PDF)

Edumus (most of them for piano, guitar, flute or voice) (PDF)

El Atril (PDF)

ARENAÏ (Renaissance choral scores) (PDF)

Jacques Duphly (French harpsichordist and composer) (PDF)

Free Sheetmusic from Johan Tufvesson (music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) (PDF)

Ramón Pajares Box's Classical Music Files (NWC)

Music for the Nation (over 62,500 pieces from North America published between 1820 and 1885) (TIFF)

African-American Sheet Music from Brown University (over 1,300 African-American songs published between 1850 and 1920) (JPG)

Roxanna Glass Homepage (personal compositions) (GIF)

Michael's Music (Michael Schmitz) (guitar, piano, orchestra / personal compositions) (PDF)

Flute Music by Herbert Lindholm (PDF)

Online Music Scores (large number of links collected by Gordon J. Callon - Acadia University)

20,000 Volkslieder (Frank Petersohn) (folk songs) (GIF)

Oddrealm (piano, guitar) (large number of links) (unavailable on 16 May 2008)

Hans van Eck - Norbert Wissing (personal compositions) (PDF)

Musicstudents.com (PDF)

Partituras Encore (ENC)

VARIATIONS Prototype: Online Musical Scores (Indiana University) (GIF)

Sally DeFord Music (PDF)

Die Homepage von Thomas Voigt (guitar, piano / personal compositions) (GIF)

Rowy van Hest (guitar, harpsichord, organ, piano / personal compositions) (GIF or PDF)

Ragtime Music (Mississippi State University) (piano, voice / American music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) (PDF)

Frank Hill (guitar, violin / personal compositions) (PDF)

Richard Robinson's Tunebook (a large collection of traditional tunes) (GIF)

SibeliusMusic.com (a large number of scores to be opened with the free Scorch plug-in)

Compositores & Intérpretes (pieces of argentinean composers for piano or guitar) (PDF)

mfiles - free music files and musical notes (PDF scores or to be opened with the free Scorch plug-in)

Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University of Durham) (piano, voice / over 3,000 pieces from North America published between 1850 and 1920) (JPG)

Finale Showcase (a large number of scores to be opened with the freeware Finale NotePad)

Música del Sur (Néstor Guestrin) (piano, guitar, chamber music, orchestra / South American composers) (PDF)

Le petit compositeur (Daniel Avit) (guitar, flute, oboe, percussion, violin, saxophone) (GIF)

the classical music sheets library (Russia) (PDF)

Musique renaissance (Alain Naigeon) (Renaissance scores and personal compositions) (PDF or ENC)

mirror site

8notes.com (guitar, piano, percussion, violin, cello, trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, flute, recorder, bass guitar) (PDF)

Find Free Sheet Music (large number of links)

Mutopia (PDF or PostScript)

first mirror site (Australia)
second mirror site (USA)

Fred & Sharon Nachbaur's Dogstar Music (personal compositions) (NWC or PostScript) / interesting links pages (unavailable on 21 March 2008)

Kerby Music (Lindy Kerby) (personal compositions for piano or voice) (PDF)

Jean-Baptiste Voinet (personal compositions, most of them for piano or guitar) (PDF) (unavailable on 21 March 2008)

Paul Copeland (piano, organ, flute, voice, guitar) (GIF or PDF)

The Free Sheet Music Guide (large number of links)

piano passion (guide to search free classical sheet music) (in French)

The Choral Public Domain Library (over 8,500 choral scores, most of them as PDF files)

Werner Icking Music Archive (a continuation of the GMD Music Archive) (a large number of PDF or PostScript files)

Musica Viva (Frank Nordberg) (a large number of GIF scores)

FreeSheetMusic.Net (large number of links)

Music Freebies (Bayside Press.com) (guitar and piano) (every month, a different PDF score)

France Pianos - partitions (large number of links)

Free-Scores.com (large number of links collected by Victor Reny)