Our music collection goes all the way back to the early days of sound recording at the end of the 19th century. Apart from printed music and musical works published or sold in Germany, it also includes historic sound recordings such as shellac records, phonograph cylinders and piano rolls. In the 1960s, we started collecting sound recordings produced in the GDR; in 1970, we expanded our collection to include music released on sound recordings in the Federal Republic. In keeping with technical developments, our collection also includes tapes, music cassettes, records, CDs, DVDs and music published digitally.