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, Mac OS X and MS Windows). It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.