German Music Archive

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German Music Archive
Reading room of the German Music Archive
Location	Leipzig
Established	1970
Collection
Size	2 million
Access and use
Access requirements	German National Library card
Other information
Public transit access	S 1 S 2 S 3 S 5 S 5X Leipzig MDR (400m) Tram 16 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Website	www.dnb.de/EN/Ueber-uns/DMA/dma_node.html

The German Music Archive (German: Deutsches Musikarchiv, DMA) in Leipzig,^[1] 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.^[2]

The DMA constitutes a department of the German National Library, Leipzig (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek).^[3]