Services

The Médiathèque Musicale Mahler in Paris has an international reputation as a general resource center for music research and for various collections. A third of its visitors come from outside France (European countries, America and Asia).

To valorise these collections, put at the public’s disposal thanks to Maurice Fleuret and Henry-Louis de La Grange, the Médiathèque Musicale Mahler proposes several services: in-house consultation of documents, documentary or iconographic research, and organisation of exhibitions.

For any additional information, please refer to the « Services » section in the French version.

Using the library

• The library is open on a regular basis, Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10pm to 6pm (friday and saturday: 5pm).
• It is closed in August, and Christmas/New Year period.
• Not constituted as a lending library, the collections are available for in-house consultation only.
• Access to the recordings section is by appointment
• Archival research may be set up by written request in advance.
• Archival research is possible Tuesdays throught Fridays only by appointment.

Fee

Annual membership fee : 35 €

Annual membership fee (for students) : 25 €

Day’s entry (for the library ) : 6 €

Day’s entry (for library + archives) : 15 €

Contact

Sonia Popoff : +33 (0) 1 53 89 09 10 / or by E-Mail.

Documentation

The Médiathèque Musicale Mahler in Paris has gradually become a true Musical Documentation Center, focussing upon the musical life in Paris, France and the whole world.
A full documentation and reference service by telephone is available Tuesdays to Fridays by special subscription.

Three subscription formats

(For all subscriptions we made out an estimate)

• a subscription per annum for specific data (dates, publishers, playing length of works, etc…)
• a subscription ranging per annum for major research projects
• an institutional subscription per annum, for « à la carte » specialised services such as detailed documentary research utilizing the resources of the library as well as other libraries as needed ; compilation of thematic files ; locating visual material ; analyses of works, lists of sources and translations of musical texts.

Some thirty institutions are subscribers to this service, including the Orchestre de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Théâtre du Châtelet or the Festival de Saint-Denis.

Some thematic files

More than 350 research requests are fulfilled each year :

- Comic Italian operas of the 17th and 18th centuries
- Gregorian chant
- Performances of Verdi’s Don Carlos
- Musical compositions on the theme of water
- …

Contact

Christiane David : +33 (0)1 53 89 09 11 / Fax : +33 (0)1 43 59 70 22,

or by E-Mail.

Photographic archive

• The various resources of the library, covering the iconography of 19th and 20th century music: photographs of composers and performers, reproductions of manuscripts, autograph letters, concert programs, and opera sets and costumes.
• The library can supply photographs in black and white and color tranparencies; prices on request.

Contact

Alena Parthonnaud : +33 (0)1 53 89 09 14, or by E-Mail.

View of the photographic archive on “Archives en images“ (in French).

Exhibitions & other Manifestations

Edgar Varèse - Lyons, 1996

The Médiathèque Musicale Mahler in Paris – since its creation in 1986 – has gradually become a true Musical Documentation Center, focussing upon the musical life in Paris, France and the whole world : exhibitions, publications, lectures and other animations.

For any additional information, please refer to « Les Expositions » et « Autres manifestations » (in French) .

Address & E-Mail

Médiathèque Musicale Mahler : 11 bis rue de Vézelay, F-75008 Paris.
Telephone : +33 (0)1 53 89 09 10 / Fax : +33 (0)1 43 59 70 22

To send us an E-Mail

To visit the Library:

Bus : 21 – 28 – 30 – 32 – 84 – 94
Underground :

• Ligne 2 (station: Villiers)
• Ligne 3 (station:Villiers)
• Ligne 9 (station:Saint-Augustin, or Miromesnil)
• Ligne 13 (station: Miromesnil)

CLICK HERE to see where the Library is situated.

The team

Alain Galliari
General Manager: +33 (1) 53 89 09 10

Christiane David
Documentation: +33 (1) 53 89 09 11

Alena Parthonnaud
Librarian (Mahler) and photographic archiv: +33 (1) 53 89 09 14

Sonia Popoff
Librarian: +33 (1) 53 89 09 10