Hochschule für Musik und Theater

The Library of the HMTH, with its collection of over 200,000 items (books, recordings etc.), is one of the largest of all the Universities of Music. The subjects covered range from Historic and Systematic Musicology to Music Education to Ethnomusicology. Of particular interest are the Laade Collection, one of the largest private collections of sound documents worldwide, and the collection of German-language music teaching books since 1750. In the fields of Media and Communication Sciences, the HMTH and Fachhochschule Hannover (University of Applied Sciences and Arts) are in the process of setting up a joint library at the Kurt Schwitters Forum.