We would like to voice this impressive figure because it’s now a huge sheet music library that is available to MusicaNeo users from every corner of the world at any time of day and night, and what’s most important – they can use it without spending a penny. To gather such an extensive sheet music collection at home one would need to put in a lot of effort, resources and time. We have analyzed what music scores in MusicaNeo catalogue are free of charge and would like to share our observations with you in this article.

What Music Scores Can Be Downloaded for Free?

Among those whose music works can be most often found for free in this 30 000+ list are the names of the most popular composers of classical music – Bach, Liszt, Shuman, Haydn, Handel and other great musicians of the past. Most widely presented are free music works for guitar, piano, violin and cello – both solo and in accompaniment with other instruments, as well as part of chamber ensembles. There are also a lot of song scores, choral and symphonic music works. All free sheet music can be downloaded in PDF format (in some cases in archived ZIP files).

But we would especially like to draw your attention to contemporary composers who published their works at MusicaNeo and offer them for free download. It’s important to note that the number of such authors is pretty big. We would not like to offend anyone, therefore, please excuse us those whose names were not mentioned in this article for objective reasons: over 1200 authors publish their compositions at MusicaNeo and a half of them offer sheet music for free.

Free Sheet Music by Contemporary Composers

Here are the TOP-10 authors who uploaded all or almost all of their music works for free access. The sheet music of the composers mentioned below can be easily found with the help of the search service line above. (The following list was created by the number of the uploaded items in descending order at the moment of writing the article)

Oleg Kopenkov (714 scores) André Hüller bei DiBaB (489 scores) Alexander Zatynchenko (244 scores) Svetlana Vetushko (102 scores) Oleg Trunnikov (94 scores) Sergej Kolgan (85 scores) Ken Morrison (65 scores) Sviataslau Vitkouski (57 scores) Friedrich Gross (52 scores) Pierre-Paul Daneels (52 scores)

On behalf of MusicaNeo community we would like to thank the above mentioned composers for offering their music, and would also like to express our gratitude to the following authors who, along with a big sheet music collection for sale, offer a great part of their music scores for free: OLC Barcelona Sheet Music, Maurice Verheul, Flore Touin, Vladimir Malganov, Vladimir Polionny, Norbert Sprave, Mikhail Gogolin, Oleg Bogdashin, Arthur Orenburgsky, Michael Reichenbach, Bernd Gehring, Yvonne Johnson, Yury Pronin, Hans-Jürgen Philipp and other users not mentioned in this article but whose names can be found in MusicaNeo catalogue.

How to Return Thanks to the Authors?

If you liked the work you downloaded, do not forget to leave a comment to the sheet music at the bottom of the page. Your every positive review is a tangible reward for the author’s time and efforts, and your support inspires for creating new music masterpieces.

If composer’s creative work seems close to you, maybe you’ll get interested in other works offered for sale at his/her personal site. Believe us, composer is happy about every purchased music score as it means special interest in his/her music.

Share the link to free sheet music with your friends-musicians (e.g. using the social networks share buttons). They might be in search of new interesting music too.

And the most important: perform your favourite compositions at the concerts, competitions, in class, among friends. Inhale life into the music encrypted in the note signs so that as many people as possible could hear these works. That is what every composer aspires to, after all. Let’s help to make it happen together.

In conclusion, we’d like to note that the sheet music archive is constantly growing with new music pieces. Drop by more often not to miss the most delicious!