Capella (notation Program)

Capella (notation Program)

capella is a music notation program or Scorewriter developed by the German company Capella Software AG (formerly WHC), running on Microsoft Windows or corresponding emulators in other operating systems, like Wine on Linux and others on Apple Macintosh. Capella requires to be activated after a trial period of 30 days. The publisher writes the name in lower case letters only. The program had initially created by Hartmut Ring, and is now maintained and developed by Bernd Jungmann.

Being one of the earliest computer programs for music notation, and having a relatively moderate price compared with programs like Finale or Sibelius, Capella could win in market-share, despite the drawbacks of running only on MS Windows, and being available originally only in German. Capella claims to have 300'000 users for the music notation program, 120'000 for the OCR program. Digital sheet music in Capella formats is available in various online music libraries, especially in German speaking areas. The Hymnal ("Evangelisches Gesangbuch") of the protestant churches in Germany has been digitized using Capella software.

Besides in German, capella is available in English (US and British), Dutch, Finnish, Polish (version 5.3) and Czech (capella 2008).