Collections in store

Location: Töölönkatu 28, 6th floor

This collection consists of sheet music, books and back volumes of periodicals no longer in the lending library and donated collections.

The Finnish printed music in this collection is mainly vocal, piano, violin and cello music from the latter half of the 19th century to about the 1950s. The library has tried specifically to acquire rarities no longer in print and first editions, and scores signed by the composer.

Historical collection:

The historical collection consists of books and sheet music accumulated during the early history of Sibelius Academy.

Part of material has been digitized and can be found in Doria in PDF-form.

List of the books in the historical collection
List of the sheet music in the historical collection

Donations:

Aune Antti (vocal music; list in Finnish)
Rolf Bergroth (piano music)
Mikko von Deringer (salon orchestra music)
Kauko Ero (Eklund) (books, Orthodox church music)
Richard Faltin (19th century books and music)
Anja Ignatius (violin music)
Jussi Jalas (scores, incl. orchestral works by Sibelius, lots of notes on performance)
Lilly Kajanus (harp music)
Evert Katila (books)
Lea Piltti (vocal music)
Simananniemi Manor music collection (incl. hand-written and printed music from the 18th century onwards)
Aarne Wegelius, Oskar Merikanto, Richard Faltin, Elis Mårtensson, Taneli Kuusisto and Enzio Forsblom (organ music)
British Council (LP records)
Melodija (LP records)
Musical Heritage Society (LP records)

07.10.2009 Ikkala Mikko