#Sibelius composer pro#
#Sibelius composer software#

The program was released to the public in April 1993 on 3.5-inch floppy disk. Both were music students, and said they wrote the program because they did not like the laborious process of writing music by hand. Development in assembly language on the RISC OS started in 1986 after they left school, and continued while they were at Oxford and Cambridge universities, respectively. Finnish), as well as being one of their favourite composers. The Finns said they could not remember why they used Jean Sibelius' name, but it was probably because he was also ‘a Finn' (i.e. Sibelius was originally developed by British twins Jonathan and Ben Finn for the Acorn Archimedes computer under the name 'Sibelius 7', not as a version number, but reminiscent of Sibelius' Symphony No 7. Avid subsequently recruited some new programmers to continue development of Sibelius, and Steinberg hired most of the former Sibelius team to create a competing software, Dorico. In July 2012, Avid announced plans to divest its consumer businesses, closed the Sibelius London office, and removed the original development team, despite extensive protests on Facebook and elsewhere.

#Sibelius composer pro#

In August 2006 the company was acquired by Avid, to become part of its Digidesign division, which also manufactures the digital audio workstation Pro Tools. The company won numerous awards, including the Queen's Award for Innovation in 2005.

#Sibelius composer software#

In addition to its head office in Cambridge and subsequently London, Sibelius Software opened offices in the US, Australia and Japan, with distributors and dealers in many other countries worldwide. It went on to develop and distribute various other music software products, particularly for education. Named after the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, the company was founded in April 1993 by twin brothers Ben and Jonathan Finn to market the eponymous music notation program they had created. Less advanced versions of Sibelius at lower prices have been released, as have various add-ons for the software. It produces printed scores, and can also publish them via the Internet for others to access. Beyond creating, editing and printing music scores, Sibelius can also play the music back using sampled or synthesised sounds. It is the world's largest selling music notation program. Sibelius is a scorewriter program developed and released by Sibelius Software Limited (now part of Avid Technology). An example of a music sheet created in Sibelius.