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Sibelius is a scorewriter program. Named for the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, it was first launched on the Acorn Archimedes computer in 1993, created by a specialist company which was founded by British twins Ben and Jonathan Finn. Since then, it has grown to become the world's most widely-used scorewriting package, currently in version 3 (for Microsoft Windows and Mac).
The launch of Sibelius significantly heated up the 'home and professional scorewriter' market, previously dominated by Finale.
Sibelius has also made inroads into the online music publishing market with its free score reader and browser plugin, Scorch, allowing users of Sibelius and Finale to securely publish their music on the internet.
Popular belief has it that the name 'Sibelius' was a pun on the inventors' surname of 'Finn'. However, the inventors maintain that while this may have been the reason, they can't really remember.
