: Catalogue of music books and scores I (Books and journals until 1984 [year of acquisition], music scores and songbooks until 1989) Catalogue of music books and scores II (Books until 1984 [year of a [...] catalogues have been scanned. Easily via Internet you can obtain information on music scores, CDs, books, and journals. You may also place an online request for items which willl be delivered into the music
the Rare Books and Music Reading Room at the Haus Unter den Linden. For preservation or legal reasons, however, specific restrictions apply in particular cases, mainly for special materials. Books and music [...] fetched from the stacks each day at 10.00 and at 14.00. The items are available ca. 2 hours later (Rare Books and Music reading room), whereas materials for home reading may be available half a day later. For
items. Original letters and the so-called conversation books will be displayed. Beginning in 1818 and in use until Beethoven's death, these books document the "conversations", which the deaf composer conducted
accompanying handwritten notes, musicological and general literature from his library, as well as book publications about him, professional correspondence, and audio and video data carriers with recordings [...] notes with handwritten annotations over 600 volumes from the private library, including 400 reference books on musicological subjects about 9000 letters of professional correspondence more than 2500 audio carriers
conversation books, those of relevance for biographical research - two more are held in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn - are catalogued in Kalliope . Beethoven's own entries in the conversation books are comparatively [...] which plans an exhibition with autograph items such as music autographs, sketches, conversation books, letters, and documents. The presentation is complemented by other exhibits such as first and early
about 480 literary estates 80,000 letters 8,000 pictures and portraits 500,000 music prints 120,000 books 20,000 libretti and 43,000 sound carriers Collections development, cataloguing and classification
continually increasing the number of electronic records. The most important catalogues regarding books, sheet music, and CDs are available as card-image catalogues . For more information you may contact
department are: recording and classification of the items in catalogues and databases - StaBiKat for books, journals and sheet music, Kalliope for manuscripts and RISM for music manuscripts. Staff members
