Contact
ClassicNotes is maintained by a small group of editors who are themselves students, teachers, and performers of the keyboard repertoire. We welcome corrections, suggestions, and conversations from anyone who uses the catalog seriously.
What to write to us about
Catalog corrections. If you find a typo in a title, a wrong composer attribution, an incorrect key, or a misdated work, please tell us. Music history is full of small inconsistencies between sources and we try to follow IMSLP and the major scholarly editions, but we'd rather know when we've gone wrong.
Missing pieces. If you've searched for a public-domain piano work and we don't have it, write in. We add new entries every week and the queue is loosely ordered by request frequency.
Better editions. If you know of a higher-quality public-domain engraving than the one we currently link — particularly a clean, modern urtext that has fallen into the public domain — please send the link.
Difficulty re-rating. Difficulty marking is the most subjective part of any score catalog. If you teach a piece regularly and disagree with our level, we want to hear from you. Several of our editors are active piano teachers and we will happily re-discuss any rating.
What we cannot do
We are not a commercial publisher and we cannot supply modern, copyrighted editions. We cannot answer broad music-theory or analysis questions individually — we are a catalog, not a teaching service. We cannot host audio recordings or video performances; the catalog is text and notation only.
Reaching us
The fastest way to reach an editor is by email at editors@classicnotes.example. We read everything and try to reply within a week, though during busy periods (and the early weeks of the recital season) it can take longer.
If you'd like to volunteer to help with cataloging, transcription, or proofreading, mention that in the subject line and we'll send you the contributor handbook.
Press and academic enquiries
Researchers and journalists who want to write about open-access music notation, the public-domain catalog, or the IMSLP ecosystem are welcome to write in. We can usually answer factual questions about catalog size, growth, and methodology in a single email exchange.
A small request
Please do not write to ask us to host commercial scores, sell licenses, or grant exclusive rights to anything. We do not own the underlying compositions — they belong to the public — and we have no interest in commercializing them.