[2] A resource centre, in addition to its musical fonds, it puts composers in touch with performers and creators on the occasion of various projects, participates in the dissemination of musical works to programmers, and offers a season of meetings, symposia and study days.
[4] Officially created in 1977, the Centre was inaugurated in February 1978 and opened to the public a few months later with a documentary catalogue of 500 works.
[2] In 2007, the Cdmc is coordinating, in partnership with the IRCAM, the Conservatoire de Paris, the Cité de la musique, the Médiathèque Musicale Mahler and the Ensemble intercontemporain, the setting up of a portal dedicated to contemporary music.
[7][8] The documentation is kept at the Centre twenty years after the death of a composer, then the collection is returned to the BnF.
[3] As for the contemporary music portal, as of July 2020, it claims access to 400,000 records and 14,000 audio excerpts online, and the database contains nearly 10,000 names or structures.