Memorial Library of Music

The Memorial Library of Music, presented to Stanford in 1948 by Mr. and Mrs. George T. Keating, contains over 1,500 printed and manuscript scores of operas, symphonic works, chamber music, and choral works by major composers from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Mascagni, Debussy, and Stravinsky. While the Memorial Library of Music is strong in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music, recent collecting interests have centered on the seventeenth-century French court composer, Jean-Baptiste Lully. The rare book collection of the Music Library is useful for its holdings in the history of music theory and performance.

The guide to the Memorial Library of Music collection is currently being converted to electronic form, and the portion which has already been digitized and encoded has been made available on the internet from any of the following sites: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/xml/mlm.xml [xml format] (which requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher) or http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6r29p0pm [html format].