Clavitura · Public edition · Scores open on IMSLP; no PDF downloads are hosted here.
A reading and practice museum
Music travelled.
Follow its journey.
Explore the history of keyboard and organ music through cities, churches, courts and composers—then open the scores and play what survives.
The opening rooms
12 ways into the collection
Venice · Rome · NaplesItalyFrom St Mark's to the keyboard sonata13 composers · 886 scores
Lübeck · Hamburg · LeipzigGermanyChorale, counterpoint and the Bach world11 composers · 1609 scores
Paris · Versailles · the organ loftFranceOrnament, ceremony and the grand jeu10 composers · 273 scores
The virginal book · chapel · concert roomEnglandFrom private keyboards to the English voluntary11 composers · 368 scores
Castile · Valencia · Lisbon · El EscorialIberiaTientos, diferencias and royal keyboards7 composers · 370 scores
Antwerp · Amsterdam · the northern routeThe Low CountriesThe teacher at Europe's keyboard crossroads7 composers · 143 scores
Salzburg · Eisenstadt · ViennaAustriaThe keyboard in the age of Vienna6 composers · 463 scores
Warsaw · Żelazowa Wola · ParisPolandPolish dance, song and the Chopin imagination3 composers · 163 scores
Prague · Litomyšl · Raiding · BudapestCzech Lands & HungaryLoft, nation and fieldwork7 composers · 391 scores
Basel · St Gallen · Zurich · GenevaSwitzerlandTablature, Salon and Cathedral7 composers · 20 scores
Copenhagen · Bergen · Stockholm · HelsinkiScandinaviaThe Northern Loft11 composers · 249 scores
St Petersburg · Klin · MoscowRussiaBetween the two capitals8 composers · 201 scores
Reference rooms
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