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The best option is Classical Archives:

http://classicalarchives.com/

Great selection, great editing of the site by musicians who know what they are doing, unlimited streaming for $6/month or buy tracks as you like.

There are a number of other programs as well, including PhotoScore, part of the Sibelius suite... As well, I've had a great deal with the roll-your-own-OCR suite Gamera. Granted, you have to cobble together your own stuff, but you can mostly rely on pre-existing code. The advantage to Gamera is that you have a huge amount of flexibility, as you write your own processing scripts using Python.

In reference to this particular set of online music, I'm not sure how helpful a music OCR program would be though, as from what I've seen, they're mostly sub-100 dpi images, and most music OCR software recommends upwards of 300 dpi for accurate recognition.

However, if someone's just after Mozart midis, it's a heck of a lot easier to just go to ClassicalArchives.com. They have a huge amount of midi there. Granted, it's not likely based on the NMA, but if you're just after a midi, you probably don't care...

I'm sorry, but perhaps you have not heard midi music in a long time. Long are the days since soundboards came with lousy samples and no effects whatsoever: todays midis, with great samples and full wav synthesis with effects applied sound almost as great as any recording, specially works for piano, harpsichord and acoustic guitar alone. I agree String sections still sound rather synthetic though...

If you're on Linux, use timidity++, which is the best MIDI synthesis software available. On Windows, be sure that you have in Control Panel -> Sounds and Multimedia -> Audio -> MIDI Reproduction set to Software Wavetable Synthethizer, otherwise it'll sound just as bad as you heard before.

Right now i'm listening to Saint Saen's Animal Carnivel and even though it includes orchestra as well as the piano, it sounds absolutely vibrant and lively! Give it another shot, i tell you. I believe i got this MIDI from here:
http://www.classicalarchives.com/main/s.html#SAINT -SAENS

I believe the one i'm listening in particular is this one (the byte size matches):
http://www.classicalarchives.com/m/0/00crnval.mid

You have to get a free registration to download and that only gives you 5 downloads a day, which is kinda lame. But the MIDI's are of superb quality.

I also have another stunning source of quality MIDIs:
http://kunstderfuge.com/

Free registration and 10 downloads/day. This one is specially great for solo keyboard works.

I'm sorry, but perhaps you have not heard midi music in a long time. Long are the days since soundboards came with lousy samples and no effects whatsoever: todays midis, with great samples and full wav synthesis with effects applied sound almost as great as any recording, specially works for piano, harpsichord and acoustic guitar alone. I agree String sections still sound rather synthetic though...

If you're on Linux, use timidity++, which is the best MIDI synthesis software available. On Windows, be sure that you have in Control Panel -> Sounds and Multimedia -> Audio -> MIDI Reproduction set to Software Wavetable Synthethizer, otherwise it'll sound just as bad as you heard before.

Right now i'm listening to Saint Saen's Animal Carnivel and even though it includes orchestra as well as the piano, it sounds absolutely vibrant and lively! Give it another shot, i tell you. I believe i got this MIDI from here:
http://www.classicalarchives.com/main/s.html#SAINT -SAENS

I believe the one i'm listening in particular is this one (the byte size matches):
http://www.classicalarchives.com/m/0/00crnval.mid

You have to get a free registration to download and that only gives you 5 downloads a day, which is kinda lame. But the MIDI's are of superb quality.

I also have another stunning source of quality MIDIs:
http://kunstderfuge.com/

Free registration and 10 downloads/day. This one is specially great for solo keyboard works.

http://www.classicalarchives.com/

The piece is J.S. Bach's Invention in a minor, BWV 784. Download the midi file from here.

In my case, an obsession with this piece led to a career in music. And I'm posting this from work. Weird.

These are just incontinent people. They understand that neglecting family, work, friends and what not is wrong, but they freely choose to do so.

The addiction itself is not always a Bad Thing. Thank God that this guy and few other maniacs were addicted to music.

These are just incontinent people. They understand that neglecting family, work, friends and what not is wrong, but they freely choose to do so.

The addiction itself is not always a Bad Thing. Thank God that this guy and few other maniacs were addicted to music.

These are just incontinent people. They understand that neglecting family, work, friends and what not is wrong, but they freely choose to do so.

The addiction itself is not always a Bad Thing. Thank God that this guy and few other maniacs were addicted to music.

These are just incontinent people. They understand that neglecting family, work, friends and what not is wrong, but they freely choose to do so.

The addiction itself is not always a Bad Thing. Thank God that this guy and few other maniacs were addicted to music.

These are just incontinent people. They understand that neglecting family, work, friends and what not is wrong, but they freely choose to do so.

The addiction itself is not always a Bad Thing. Thank God that this guy and few other maniacs were addicted to music.

H'm. It's curiously absent from the Classical Archives. Unless it's on another page...

Nonsense! Take Music. Mozart's requiem. It's just dots on paper - information - and so, like all information, infinitely copiable. I can take the sheet music, and photcopy it a thousand times.

Perhaps you argue that the performer adds something to each performance to make it unique. Fair enough. Many a Mozart lover will have differnet recordings of the same piece.

But one can take the sheet music, and convert it into a midi. Here's one here of the Kyrie. No artistic contribution to the work at all by the performer, my PC is converting numbers into sounds.

So Mozart's work, becomes, by your argument, becomes worthless, and not art, because I can make a zillion copies of this?