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Web archive of public domain sheet music

The Werner Icking Music Archive (often abbreviated WIMA) is a web archive of liberally licensed sheet music of public domain music.

The scores are electronically typeset by volunteers and distributed in PDF, often accompanied by their typesetting files. WIMA continues the defunct GMD Music Archive and is named after its founder, the late Werner Icking.

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After a merge completed in 2012, the archive forms part of the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP).

History

Icking's original archive at the GMD (Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung) in Germany was the oldest online collaborative distribution site for music scores.^[1] Following Icking's death in 2001, the administration of the site was taken over by Danish composer and computer programmer Christian Mondrup.

Renamed as the Werner Icking Music Archive in honour of its founder, the site was transferred to the Depart