CMG-HEM Library

The Library of the Geneva Conservatory of Music is the library of the Geneva School of Music. All the teachers, students and employees of the latter have access to consultation and home loan.

Located on rue de la Synagogue 35, the library of the Geneva Conservatory of Music has a reading room, two computer stations and a photocopier. It holds more than 120,000 documents. It holds several tens of thousands of scores, composed of both standard editions of works for all instrumental and vocal ensembles - covering all periods of the history of music - and large monumental collections, to which must be added numerous methods and a wide variety of pedagogical works. It also possesses nearly 20'000 books, concerning all fields of musicological and pedagogical research, as well as documents on microform. It also provides access to the main online research and listening sites, notably through the electronic resources of the HES-SO.

The Library is a teaching and research tool, whose reputation extends far beyond our borders, but it is also an archive of the musical life of Geneva and Switzerland (composers' fonds, documents of historical interest). Its reserve collection includes precious printed documents from the 16th to the 20th century as well as several hundred autograph manuscripts, among which are works by Berlioz, Britten, d'Indy, Honegger, Martinu, Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky. The library also holds several special collections, including the Dimitry Markevitch Library, which is dedicated to the cello and its history.

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Open Mondays to Fridays, from 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm 

Library director
Jacques Tchamkerten         

Librarians
Nimrod Ben-Zeev
Claudine Michon
Jolanka Tchamkerten