The National Library presents a digital collection of printed music for Estonian song festivals

04.10.2012

Through the digital archive DIGAR of the National Library of Estonia a new collection of printed music for Estonian song festivals is made available to the public.

The digitisation of printed music was commissioned and financed by Laine Randjärv and Vello Salo with desire to provide the public with better access to the repertoire of song festivals – an essential tradition that reflects our intangible cultural heritage.

The collection includes the choral sheet music of twenty five song festivals held from 1869-2009. Digitised are 168 pieces of song festival music from the printed music collection of the National Library, among these the songbooks for all types of choirs that have participated, from male to children’s and selected choirs, and also the songbooks for the Russian choirs of Soviet Estonia.