Classical Sheet Music Sources
Looking for a classic score to a piece of sheet music? Maybe you can find it online.
Classical sheet music is available in many stores, but as more classical pieces enter the public domain, you may be able to find them for free online.
Here is a brief but useful list of sites that provide free classical sheet music for download to your computer:
Lots of music, but you can only download three free classical music scores before you have to pay $27.00 per year. Music scores are easily searchable, but the results listings are a bit hard to focus on.
http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net
A smaller selection of music, but all music is truly free (although limited to two downloads per day). Most of the major classical music composers are listed and easily navigated.
http://www.8notes.com/The best organized of the sites I have visited. Music is sorted by instrument first, but can also be searched via genre or composer. Includes more than just classical sheet music. Best of all the pieces include a visual display of the difficulty of the piece before you try to download it. GIF versions of most classical sheet music is free, PDF versions require a subscription.
