A DIGITAL SOURCE SERVICE PROVIDED BY SLUB DRESDEN ON MUSIC AND THEATRE RESEARCH

Welcome!

The "Dresden Court Music" website presents the three latest projects of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek Saxon State Library – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden State und University Library Dresden (SLUB) to develop and digitalise their precious collections of musical scores from the section "Music Manuscripts – Old Prints". Please come in and find out more about the projects "Schrank II" (Cabinet II) and "Dresden Opera Archive", which where completed in 2011 and 2015, as well as about the ongoing project "Dresden Court Church and Royal Private Music Collection".

All roads lead to ...

... to our sources. The "Digital collections" will take you directly to the digital reproductions. The "Writers'" and "Watermarks" Catalogues provide additional philological information. Finally, the "RISM-OPAC" offers comprehensive information on all sections.

A million digitalised pages ...

In the three SLUB "Court music" Projects, a total of 5,600 music manuscripts, music prints and libretti have been scientifically documented and 1,121,000 pages digitalised.

By this means, some 230 metres of collections of historical scores from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries have migrated into the internet, where they can be researched and viewed free of charge from anywhere in the world.