Now You Can Discover Belgian Music from World War I - Digital Access

The Royal Library of Belgium holds an interesting collection of music from the First World War, and the Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project is widening access to it with its digitization project.

Frederic Lemmers, Head of Digitization programs at the Royal Library, gave a presentation about this project to music librarians at the IAML conference in Antwerp earlier this summer. 

• Read Frédéric Lemmers' presentation:  "Music & First World War within the collections of the Royal Library of Belgium"

The Royal Library's selection of documents concerning music during the Great War is available on both the www.europeana.eu and www.europeana1914-1918.eu websites, the main European digital library and its specific thematic portal dedicated to the Great War.

Additionally, there are several collections of songbooks and music sheets from all parts of Europe, on the Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project website, where they've been listed by ten European national libraries. (See also : www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu).
Restricted access to the music corpus of the Royal Library of Belgium is also available HERE.
  

Frédéric Lemmers

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België)

4, Bd de l'Empereur - Keizerslaan

B-1000 Bruxelles - Brussel

tel.: +32.2.519.56.64

Website:- http://belgica.kbr.be

Composer for the Violin, Henri Vieuxtemps

Just been invited to a virtual exhibition.  The invitation explains itself:-

[You are invited to] "our virtual exhibition on the life and works of Henry Vieuxtemps (1820-1881).  The Music Department of the Royal Library of Belgium holds the largest collection of scores by the famous 19^th century Belgian violinist and composer.  The exhibition gives a chronological survey of his career and features numerous unpublished documents including autograph scores, letters and illustrations. Available languages: French and Dutch." 

Visit it here.
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Contact details:-

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique - Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België
Section de la Musique - Muziekafdeling
Boulevard de l'Empereur 4 - Keizerslaan 4
B-1000 Bruxelles - Brussel
Belgique - België
T. +32-(0)2-519.56.63
F. +32-(0)2-519.57.60