Phone number.: 02 / 59 804 513
E-mail: veronika.bakicova@ulib.sk
The library will be closed from 24 December 2025 to 6 January 2026.
We look forward to your visit on 7 January 2026.
Collection of music documents contains both music recordings and spoken word recordings (language courses, drama, poetry, fairy-tales).
Reference collection is built systematically in science disciplines order with open access to the literature.
Users can play sheet music directly in the study room on a Yamaha digital piano
The Music Cabinet manages several unique collections:
• The estate of Miloš Ruppeldt – printed music and manuscripts from the 19th and 20th centuries, including autographs of Slovak composers that were once considered lost
• Dance music from 1936-1966 – a sheet music collection of composer, arranger, and publicist Pavol Zelenay
• The archive of Prague bandmaster Antonín Roubíček – collection of salon music (in processing)
We are currently digitizing our sheet music collections, and each item is professionally restored before digitization.
The Music Cabinet annually publishes the Music Anniversary Calendar has been providing information on the birth and death anniversaries of composers, conductors, performers, theorists, teachers, musicologists, instrumentalists, folklorists, and other important figures from the world of music for more than 40 years. It was first published under the title Significant Anniversaries for 1982. Music.
You can find the current year’s edition here:
Music Anniversary Calendar 2026
Previous editions of the Calendar are available in the Archive section:
Music Anniversary calendar - Archive
The online musicological encyclopedia The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians - Oxford Music Online can be accessed via the library's website https://www.ulib.sk/sk/e-pramene/zoznam-pramene/ Remote access requires a reader's card number and a password. (available from January 2026)
