A collection of musical scores by French composer and music publisher Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) is now available online in the Iowa Digital Library.

The Rita Benton Music Library at the University of Iowa has released the Ignaz Pleyel Early Editions Digital Collection, which is located at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/pleyel.

This collection of nearly 250 early printed and manuscript scores represents in entirety the music library's holdings of Pleyel's work. It consists primarily of keyboard and chamber music, including arrangements of large orchestral works. Also included in the collection are songs with keyboard accompaniment and method books providing instruction in certain instruments.

Pleyel was a contemporary of famous composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827); he also apprenticed with Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) early in his career. Most of the scores were published between 1780 and 1810.

The physical collection was assembled by the late Dr. Rita Benton, noted Pleyel scholar and former head of the Music Library at the UI.
This collection is one of many in the Iowa Digital Library at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/, which contains more than 250,000 digital photographs, maps, sound recordings, and documents from libraries and archives at the UI and their partnering institutions.
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