Frescobaldi (software)


Frescobaldi is an editor for LilyPond music files. Frescobaldi is free software, freely available under the GNU General Public License. It is designed to run on all major operating systems. It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi, an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.
Frescobaldi is written in Python and uses PyQt for its user interface. Its main developer is Wilbert Berendsen.
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History

Frescobaldi has its roots in LilyKDE, a plugin for KDE's Kate text editor developed by Berendsen, originally released in 2007. It later evolved into a standalone application and was renamed into Frescobaldi in 2008.
In 2011, Frescobaldi was rewritten from scratch, leading to Frescobaldi 2.0. The release removed the use of KDE libraries in favor of the base PyQt library only. As a result, Frescobaldi became cross-platform.
In 2015, the ly module from the Frescobaldi code base was split into its own project,, which has since been used independently by other Python projects.
Released in 2017, Frescobaldi 3.0 was a port of Frescobaldi 2 to Python 3 and Qt 5.
In LilyPond 2.24, the "LilyPad" editor that was previously shipped officially with LilyPond was discontinued. Instead, the official installation tutorial for LilyPond 2.24 and later guides beginners towards Frescobaldi, reflecting Frescobaldi's de facto status as the most popular LilyPond editor.

Features

Music functions