Frescobaldi is an advanced text editor to edit LilyPond sheet music files. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use.
Features:
- Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion
- Music view with advanced Point & Click
- Midi player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files
- Midi capturing to enter music
- Powerful Score Wizard to quickly setup a music score
- Snippet Manager to store and apply text snippets, templates or scripts
- Use multiple versions of LilyPond, automatically selects the correct version
- Built-in LilyPond documentation browser and built-in User Guide
- Smart layout-control functions like coloring specific objects in the PDF
- MusicXML, Midi and ABC import
- Modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts
- Translated into the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician, Turkish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Ukrainian.
Frescobaldi is designed to run on all major operating systems (Linux, macOS and Windows). It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.
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Observed history
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The initial import establishes a baseline. Future version changes will appear here.
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4.0.729 May 2026
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4.0.628 Apr 2026
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4.0.511 Feb 2026
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4.0.48 Aug 2025
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