International Music Score Library Project

IMSLP
Petrucci Music Library

Screenshot The homepage of IMSLP in December 2019.
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)
URL	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)

References

Other websites

• Website (Alternate addresses: http://petruccimusiclibrary.org Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, http://petruccilibrary.org Archived 2018-06-20 at the Wayback Machine)
• Wiki Homepage
• EU Server Portal
• US Server Portal
• CA Server Portal
• Project Leonardo Portal
• International Music Score Library Project Raises Copyright Concerns, New York Times, February 22, 2011
• Music copyright in the spotlight. BBC News 2 November 2007

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