The Library is open to all!

The Conservatoire de Lyon has a library of great wealth. It plays an important role in the curriculum of the students and is an essential educational tool for teachers. It is also an invaluable resource for musicians in general, amateurs and professionals, as well as researchers in musicology.

60% of the collections are made up of  donations from musicians and patrons from Lyon (Ennemond Trillat -1890-1980-, Léon Vallas -1879-1956-, Henry de Chaponay, Ninon Vallin -1886-1961-, Henri Dumoulin, etc.) and are distributed in four main areas, library, disk library and the reserves.

In total, 73,000 items are available on loan or for on-site consultation.

The Library provides loan and consultation services. It proposes 45 000 music scores, 6 000 books and music encyclopaedias, and 2 000 periodicals. Nearly 15 000 music scores are available on loan. The library also has a treasured collection of instrumental and vocal scores of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Borrowing is free for students and teachers of the Conservatoire.

The Disk Library provides a listening and reading room in which 10,300 CDs, 1,500 LPs, 50 DVDs and 500 books are made available.

This section has recently been enriched by several gifts and legacies of classical music and jazz music, the music critic Ferruccio Nuzzo, Lyon researcher and jazz record collector Yves-Alain Aimé Fournier (1945-2006), Roger Accart (1920-2007) founder and patron of "Musique du temps" and Anne-Marie Lamy, former professor of piano at the Conservatoire.