Music Collection of the National and University Library in Zagreb
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| Director | Tatjana Mihalić (Head of the Collection) |
| Website | nsk.hr/en/music-collection |
The Music Collection of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NUL) contains sheet music by many Croatian composers, and a large stock of sound recordings on different media.
The core of the Music Collection was established in 1945, after the selection of sheet music from the general Library’s holdings. Its items have been systematically collected through legal deposit procedures, purchases and donations and it contains items in printed and handwritten form, the legacy of Croatian composers as well as an extensive collection of sound recordings.
The Collection assembles, processes, archives and makes available sheet music - the legacy of Croatian composers - as well as a large stock of sound recordings. All materials in the collection are available to the users of the NUL and they include nearly 17,000 printed music scores, 3,000 manuscript scores, 23,600 gramophone records, 5,700 cassettes, and 7,447 CDs. Over the years the materials were added to the Collection mainly through the submitted legal deposit copies of national printed scores and audio materials and to a lesser extent through the purchase of foreign materials and publications of this type. Since 1964 the Collection has been assembling gramophone records and cassettes, and in 1989 it also started acquiring compact discs and music DVDs.
The manuscript scores in the Collection most frequently belong to the musical legacies of various Croatian composers, and they mostly entered the Collection through donations, and to a lesser extent through purchase.
The Collection includes a varied selection of reference literature and books specializing in music.
The most valuable items in the Collection are undoubtedly the manuscript scores and musical legacies of various Croatian composers, among which are the works of Vatroslav Lisinski, Blagoje Bersa, Ivan Zajc, Ferdo Livadić, Ivan Padovec, Božidar Širola, Jakov Gotovac, Fran Lhotka, Ivan Brkanović, Branimir Sakač, Antun Dobronić, Johann Petrus Jakob Haibel, Stanislav Preprek and others. The Collection also holds the third edition of Cithara octochorda from 1757, the most comprehensive and first printed collection of songs in Latin and Kajkavian intended for choral and folk singing. Cithara octochorda has been digitized as part of the Digitized NUL Heritage and is available here.
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