page_title: German Music Archive
hierarchical_section_title: German Music Archive
caption_attribution_description: English: Musiklesesaal des Deutschen Musikarchivs der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek in Leipzig
context_page_description: The German Music Archive is the central collection of printed and recorded music and the music-bibliographic information centre for Germany. It is a Federal agency founded in 1970, tasked with collecting all music published in the country. Publishers of printed and recorded music in Germany are required by law to deliver two copies of every edition as legal deposits to the archive.
  The DMA constitutes a department of the German National Library. Since 2010 it is located in Leipzig at the national library.
context_section_description: The German Music Archive (in German: Deutsches Musikarchiv, DMA) is the central collection of printed and recorded music and the music-bibliographic information centre for Germany. It is a Federal agency founded in 1970, tasked with collecting all music published in the country. Publishers of printed and recorded music in Germany are required by law (since 1973) to deliver two copies of every edition as legal deposits to the archive.
  The DMA constitutes a department of the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek). Since 2010 it is located in Leipzig at the national library.
caption: Reading room of the German Music Archive in Leipzig
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