International Music Score Library Project

I asked Erica what she thought that would look like.

There are copyright-free files you can download from a sort of volunteer-run organisation called IMSLP.

It's like an online music library.

But to get comparable music from what you would get from National Library, we would in effect have to become our own printing house.

Where were you finding the scores?

At the time I was looking, yeah, I was looking on IMSLP, which is a great resource.

When I started though, there were, you know, Fanny Hensel wrote, more than 450 works of music, most of those Lieder, and then most of the rest of them solo piano.

And she published, or there were 11 opuses of her works that were published.

I think seven of those were during her lifetime, and then the next four were shortly after her death by her family members.

So pretty much those published opuses were mainly what was on IMSLP.

And then there were a couple other works, her last piano sonata, the G minor sonata, and then Das Jahr, which is what really kind of opened up the world of Fanny Hensel for me, is the piano cycle Das Jahr.

I do recall you really diving into that around that time.

That, that's how I, I, I was doing too.

Sometimes from, uh, IMSLP, from Petrucci Music Library, uh, we have an app on our i- iPad from that library, and it has a very de- nice, neat, um, feature.

Um, uh, you could filter results by instrument, for example, organ solo, and then present the search as, as, um, random, you know.

Not a certain p- uh, composer, not a certain specific piece, but just a random page from that category.

D-857, which was the Lied der Delfin, which was one of two scenes from Lacrimas.

In the playlist, it says it's number one, but on the score on IMSLP, it was number two.

So not sure how that works.

This was another one of my favorites, and I thought the piano part was particularly beautiful.