A Music Library

This is my own working library, acquired over thirty-eight years of a personal journey with classical music, and with the piano above all. It holds about six hundred scores and two hundred and fifty books on music, most of it piano literature from Bach to Bartók, now catalogued and annotated here. I hold the complete Mozart scores, the complete piano works of Brahms, Schumann’s entire piano works, and Chopin’s complete works in the Paderewski edition.

It is a research library rather than a collection. A score here is a particular edition by a particular editor, printed by a particular house in a particular year, and those details matter. Several works on these shelves are held in three or four different editions, and the differences between them in fingering, pedaling, phrasing and even the notes themselves are a large part of what this site is about.

Browse the scores and books, start with a composer, or read the research notes.