Médiathèque Musicale Mahler

The Médiathèque Musicale Mahler is a multimedia library with collections relating to music of the 19th and 20th centuries. The institution is located in an elegant private house near the Parc Monceau in Paris at 11 bis rue de Vézelay, formerly the Bibliothèque Gustav Mahler. It was founded in 1986 by the French musicologists Henry-Louis de La Grange (born 1924) and Maurice Fleuret (1932–1990) in order to combine and make available to the public their extensive personal archives. The library's holdings have regularly been expanded and updated, and include original manuscripts and documents, published scores, books, periodicals, press clippings, recordings (LPs, cassettes, and CDs), and other personal archives. The current president of the library is Pierre Bergé (born 1930), a former director of the Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis Jouvet and President of the Paris Opera (1988–1994).