Musopen would like to publicly announce and thank our wonderful team at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) for doing an extensive review and legal analysis for MO. Today we are launching a new Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and DMCA notification document, among other things.

Their work and contributions to MO will ensure that we are doing everything possible to remove any liabilities in hosting music on the site, and further to ensure Musopen’s long term growth.

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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:

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Some personal favorites:

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

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Enjoy

-Aaron