Frescobaldi

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Latest news:
April 28th, 2026: Frescobaldi 4.0.6
February 11th, 2026: Frescobaldi 4.0.5

Releases: Stable: 4.0.6 Changes, Download)

What is Frescobaldi?

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the General Public License.

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, Brazillian Portugese and Ukrainian.

Music functions:

• Transpose music
• Change music from relative to absolute and vice versa
• Change the language used for note names
• Change the rhythm (double, halve, add/remove dots, copy, paste) etc
• Hyphenate lyrics using word-processor hyphenation dictionaries
• Add spanners, dynamics, articulation easily using the Quick Insert panel
• Update LilyPond syntax using convert-ly, with display of differences

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.

Nederlandse versie | Last modified: May 1st, 2026