The Royal College of Music Library supports teaching and performance at the RCM. The library contains a wealth of material including over 350,000 scores, books and recordings in the lending collection.

In addition to the lending collection, the RCM Library holds internationally significant materials such as the manuscripts of Mozart’s C minor Piano Concerto K491, Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Chopin’s Minute Waltz. Our collections include more than 20,000 manuscripts, 40,000 early printed editions, 140 personal archives and 700,000 concert and opera programmes.

Scans uploaded to IMSLP are primarily mirrored from our user page on Archive.org. All scans are of items requested by RCM Library users.