I’d like to announce that Musopen is releasing the complete recordings of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, all 32 of them, for free and without any copyrights.

We were able to do this thanks to all the generous donations we’ve been receiving, and hope that this is just the beginning in what will be a great deal more music for us to record and release to the public.

If you would like to help purchase the next piece of music or have ideas for what it should be, take a minute and place a bid. Believe it or not, it on average $5 from each user combined to get us this set. A small amount from enough visitors goes a long way.

By the way, with our recently added sheet music archive, you can now read along to every sonata while you listen to it.
Take my favorite for example:

Link

Some personal favorites:

1) 29th sonata
2) 12th sonata
3) 8th sonata

- The Full list -

Enjoy

-Aaron

Of all the requests I’ve received, one question is more often than others,

“Why don’t you offer sheet music!!??”

There were and are a lot of great sheet music sites, and its not our intention to replace any of their efforts. We have decided to add sheet music to enhance Musopen’s offerings as well as to start a new print initiative with the following goals:

1) Access public domain music and sheet music from one location
2) Simple to use - no strange formats, random wiki text… just the music.
3) Preview before you download/print - live previews of sheet music (thanks Scribd!)
4) Enhance user experience by letting visitors “read along” to sheet music while they listen to a recording
5) Print Initiative - At cost printable sheet music. Order public domain sheet music for the cost of printing/shipping, no more.

To start, we have the Beethoven sonatas Volumes I and II available, with more to come.
Vol I
Vol II

We hope to combine this new effort with several exciting partnerships to be announced soon.

Browse MO Sheet Music

Sample Sheet music page

Sample Read Along (only works if we have both an mp3 file and pdf of a piece)