What is Rosegarden?
Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.
Release 1.7.2 now available! This is a maintenance release that follows close on the heels of 1.7.1. It includes some comparatively small but really interesting new features and usability improvements, which mostly concern lyrics, and a new lead sheet LilyPond export mode that lets you make lead sheets by using LilyPond format chord texts (eg. g:maj7) over top of your lead line.
Heikki Junes deserves the lion's share of credit for this release. All the features and most of the bug fixes have his name written all over them. Thanks, Heikki! Well done!
Read the release note, and get the code here!
Learn more about Rosegarden:
- Take our tour!
- Read the user documentation.
- Join the Rosegarden community.
- Find out who wrote Rosegarden.
- And last but not least, get it!

