Clavitura · Public edition · Scores open on IMSLP; no PDF downloads are hosted here.
Six journeys through the collection
Musical Europe
Keyboard music travelled through churches, courts, workshops and cities. Enter by place, meet the composers inside their history, then open the scores that survive.
Venice · Rome · Naples
Italy
From St Mark's to the keyboard sonata
13 linked composers · 886 scores
Lübeck · Hamburg · Leipzig
Germany
Chorale, counterpoint and the Bach world
11 linked composers · 1609 scores
Paris · Versailles · the organ loft
France
Ornament, ceremony and the grand jeu
10 linked composers · 273 scores
The virginal book · chapel · concert room
England
From private keyboards to the English voluntary
11 linked composers · 368 scores
Castile · Valencia · Lisbon · El Escorial
Iberia
Tientos, diferencias and royal keyboards
7 linked composers · 370 scores
Antwerp · Amsterdam · the northern route
The Low Countries
The teacher at Europe's keyboard crossroads
7 linked composers · 143 scores
Salzburg · Eisenstadt · Vienna
Austria
The keyboard in the age of Vienna
6 linked composers · 463 scores
Warsaw · Żelazowa Wola · Paris
Poland
Polish dance, song and the Chopin imagination
3 linked composers · 163 scores
Prague · Litomyšl · Raiding · Budapest
Czech Lands & Hungary
Loft, nation and fieldwork
7 linked composers · 391 scores
Basel · St Gallen · Zurich · Geneva
Switzerland
Tablature, Salon and Cathedral
7 linked composers · 20 scores
Copenhagen · Bergen · Stockholm · Helsinki
Scandinavia
The Northern Loft
11 linked composers · 249 scores
St Petersburg · Klin · Moscow
Russia
Between the two capitals
8 linked composers · 201 scores
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