The first public release of the program came in the early ‘90s, running off of a floppy disk and designed for the now defunct Acorn Computers. Originally developed by Brit brothers Ben and Jonathan Finn in 1986, Sibelius has a history about as old as our modern day personal computers (tablets?). While Avid insists that Sibelius will continue to receive the attention it needs, one commenter on the petition “Avid Technology: Sell Sibelius!” (signed by close to 7,500 people as of the writing of this post) states that without the UK development team, “the product is doomed.” The life of Sibelius, one of the leading music notation software programs, has seemingly come under threat of dissipation as Avid (who owns the software) has recently shut down Sibelius’ UK office, simultaneously laying off the software’s core development team. You may not have known it, but July was a pretty stressful month for the composers of this world.
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