History
MuseScore was originally created as a fork of the MusE sequencer’s codebase. At that time, MusE included notation capabilities and in 2002, Werner Schweer, one of the MuSE developers, decided to remove notation support from MusE and fork the code into a stand-alone notation program. Since then, MuseScore has been under constant active development.
The MuseScore.org website was created in 2008, and showed great results with a spike in the number of MuseScore downloads. By December 2008, the download rate was up to 15,000 monthly downloads.
Version 0.9.5 was released in August 2009, which was stable enough for daily or production use, and support for Mac OS X was added. By October 2009, MuseScore had been downloaded more than 1000 times per day. By the fourth quarter of 2010, the number of MuseScore daily downloads had tripled.
MuseScore 1.0 was finally released in February 2011. This milestone release focused on stability rather than new features. This was soon followed by the release of MuseScore 1.1 in July 2011, which was downloaded nearly 1 million times. This 1.1 release fixed around 60 bugs and also featured improved jazz sheet support. MuseScore Connect, a landmark feature allowing on-line community interaction and publishing, was also included in this release.
In March 2012, MuseScore 1.2 was released. This version included over 100 bug fixes, improved MusicXML importing and exporting, as well as improved support for special characters. A small update containing mostly bug fixes was released as MuseScore 1.3 in February 2013. This release is the current stable version, recommended for daily use.
MuseScore 2.0 is currently under development, with many new features planned. No release date has yet been announced.
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