Where to Download Free MIDI Files

• midi
• learning piano

Some piano applications support MIDI files. Like Vitzik, where you can load them to render visualizations when learning a piano piece. The good thing about MIDIs is that you can find them easily on the internet for free. There are thousands of them, possibilities are endless! But what are the good websites? Here is my personal pick:

The TL;DR

• piano-midi.de
• Mutopia Project
• Kunst der Fuge
• BitMidi
• MidiWorld
• FreeMidi.org
• VGMusic
• vitzik.com (Yeah, ok, I’m totally self-promoting!)

For classical piano

Mutopia Project publishes sheet music, and most pieces offer MIDI and PDF formats. The files are clean and the notation is correct. The catalogue is smaller than the big archives and the site looks like it was built in 2003, but I prefer that over an AI slop one!

piano-midi.de is also great for piano specifically. It’s a project by Bernd Krueger. The files aren’t recorded performances: they’re sequenced note by note. The good thing is that he fixed dynamics by hand, so you don’t get the flat, every-note-at-the-same-volume sound that most sequenced files have. The catalogue is the classical repertoire, Bach through Debussy. One note: the site is served over plain HTTP rather than HTTPS, so your browser will label it “Not secure” and may warn you before letting a download finish, which is worth knowing but not worth worrying about for a MIDI file.

Kunst der Fuge has a very large classical archive. You can download a few files per day but the rest is fenced behind a subscription. Worth checking when the other two don’t have your song.

For pop, rock, jazz, films and other styles

BitMidi is an archive of the old web, roughly a hundred thousand files from the era when MIDI was how you put music on your homepage. No account, and you can play a file in the browser before downloading. Quality goes from excellent to meh but at least you have quantity!

MidiWorld is smaller, mixes multiple genres, and doesn’t ask for an account.

FreeMidi.org contains a lot of modern songs and gets updated regularly. It’s also the most aggressive with ads, so read the buttons before clicking them.

For video game music

VGMusic has decades of game music sorted by console, and it’s still online. The sequencing is often better than you’d expect, because these were made by people who cared a great deal about getting a specific song exactly right.

Or skip the downloading

If you’d rather not eat up your disk space or dodge ads, you can use Vitzik. We keep a library of MIDI piano songs that are selectively picked rather than scraped, and each one can be opened straight in the visualizer.

Songs are graded from beginner to advanced and are curated to piano only. Nothing to download, nothing to unzip, and no discovering four bars in that the arrangement has a drum track buried in it.

More songs get added regularly, and we make sure to maintain high quality.