Werner Icking Music Archive is down
http://icking-music-archive.org/
One of the longest-running and finest archives of public domain sheet music has gone down for lack of finances to support its bandwidth usage.
There was so much great music on there...not to mention Werner's own excellent editions (urtext and edited) of the Bach S&P and Suites, in versions all of us can play on our instrument (violin, viola, or cello!).
Perhaps we can find a college/university program interested in keeping the archive running?
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Better than Werner-Icking, I think, for what I've been trying to find, anyway:
imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
I shall make available Icking's archive from one of my servers free of any charges provided someone emails me the access data to pull it over.
FMF
Here's the contact info from WIMA:
WIMA, the Werner Icking Music Archive, has been closed down.
The Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, has been hosting WIMA until now. However, the thousands of daily downloads of sheet music ressources offered by WIMA has caused a very high load on WIMA's web server, thereby threatening the activities of The Department of Computer Science.
There are now ongoing considerations on how to continue the distribution of WIMA scores on another technical platform. Unfortunately I can't say whether these considerations will lead to a useable solution.
Christian Mondrup, Archive Editor, reccmo@daimi.au.dk
I've contacted Christian Mondrup, thanks. There will be a solution, one way or the other.
FMF
Thanks for the update!
Great news! Thanks for the update.
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March 4, 2010 at 12:38 AM ·
Just discovered this sad news about five minutes ago when trying to go to the site in hopes of downloading music for The Bells of St. Genevieve. Any ideas on where else to look?