Bibliothèque nationale de France

I recently learned how to use the BNF online and in Paris. For those who have not used it:
You can access the catalogue here:
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/jsp/recherchemots_simple.jsp?nouvelleRecherche=O&nouveaute=O&host=catalogue
and for example type in Mustel. If you follow the links you can order everything they have online, and you get a pdf. However, it is not cheap. You can also go there in person, get a library badge for one day, and copy the music or even take photographs with your mobile phone (the composer has to be dead for some time, I could not order Joseph Bizet, but most of the harmonium music is old enough....).

Now the good news: it looks like they upload everything they digitalize for a customer on gallica, so that all of us can use it....

I recently ordered Loret:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k855643k.r=c+loret.langDE
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k855644z.r=c+loret.langDE

And H.P. Toby:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8556214/f1.image.r=toby.langDE
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k855645b.r=toby+harmonium.langDE

I also ordered some other pieces by Toby, so maybe it will also show up on Gallica soon.... I hope you have fun with the music...

Christoph

You payed to have a pdf of Loret's pieces? Most of the time, downloading is free, I just have to click "download" to access to the pdf for Loret. Maybe ordering is about high definition?

I only ordered and payed only for pieces that were not available for free, but it looks like the BNF uploads the digitalized pieces, so that they are NOW available for free...  

So, we all thank you to have ordered the pieces   
I will order some pieces in a few days (Gigout's Romanza...) ; so, it will be free for all of us. I hope that other members will do the same...

JFB

Traduction de mon anglais approximatif :

Donc, nous vous remercions tous d'avoir commandé ces pièces.
Je vais en commander dans les prochains jours  (La Romanza de Gigout...) ; Comme ça, elle sera en accès gratuit pour nous tous. J'espère que d'autres membres feront de même...