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The Library is the documentary archive of Classical Archive, bringing together biographies, essays, historical documents, analytical studies, booklets and selected reference materials devoted to classical music.

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REFERENCE INDEX HISTORICAL GROVE · 1904–1910

Historical Grove Dictionary

Historical musicological source integrated into Classical Archive. Complete second edition in five volumes, 1904–1910. All five volumes provide article-level access. I, II, III and V use local page jumps; IV (Q–S) opens an internal record and launches the search directly inside the 1908 facsimile.

5complete historical volumes
HISTORICAL SOURCE · EXACT FACSIMILE — Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition, five volumes published from 1904 to 1910. Original facsimiles are shown; unreviewed OCR is not published as article text.

Complete Grove II · A–Z access

Open any of the five original volumes. Facsimiles are displayed directly from Internet Archive; unreviewed OCR is not published.

GROVE II · VOL. 1

A–E

1904 OPEN COMPLETE FACSIMILE → GROVE II · VOL. 2

F–L

1906 OPEN COMPLETE FACSIMILE → GROVE II · VOL. 3

M–P

1907 OPEN COMPLETE FACSIMILE → GROVE II · VOL. 4

Q–S

1908 OPEN COMPLETE FACSIMILE → GROVE II · VOL. 5

T–Z + Appendix

1910 OPEN COMPLETE FACSIMILE →
LOCAL INDEX AVAILABLE: All five volumes now provide individual article access. Volumes I, II, III and V jump to the locally identified page; Volume IV (Q–S) opens its own record and locates the heading directly inside the original 1908 facsimile.
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ARTICLE INDEX · 4,295People · 2,838Works · 149Institutions · 30Terms & Other · 1,278
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