The Music Museum possesses innumerable printed and manuscript documents, including hundreds of printed scores of the 19th and 20th centuries, sheet music, excerpts from light theatre and works of composers such as Fernando Lopes Graça, Armando José Fernandes, Cláudio Carneiro, José Viana da Mota and Óscar da Silva.

 

Important too are the books, monographs and periodicals about music and organology, manuscript and printed scores, libretti, concert programmes, letters and other documents, from the Alfredo Keil collection; others belonging to his collaborator, the composer of light theatre, Luís Filgueiras; those of Michel’angelo Lambertini; of Josefina Andersen; of Pedro Prado; of the opera singer Tomás Alcaide; of the violinist Júlio Cardona and his father Ferreira da Silva; of the pianist Ella Eleanore Amzel; of the maestro José de Sousa and the musician Virgílio Augusto Freitas.