Free sheet music

Are you still paying for piano music? Then it's time someone told you about the amazing Petrucci Music Library - an online database of virtually every piece of classical music ever written.

How? Well, under copyright law, people cannot copyright their works indefinitely. Instead, the copyright expires around 50-70 years after the death of the author. This means that editions of classical works from the first half of the 20th century and earlier are now considered public domain.

You could of course print the works you want to play and collate them in a folder. On the other hand, if you have a tablet computer which fits on your music stand, you could work from digital copies right off the net!

To help you get started, here are links to the music of some popular composers:

Bach

Beethoven

Brahms

Chopin

Debussy

Mozart

Rachmaninoff