diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index c52b66380399..d8be8b77211e 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@
   ttuegel = "Thomas Tuegel <ttuegel@gmail.com>";
   tv = "Tomislav Viljetić <tv@shackspace.de>";
   urkud = "Yury G. Kudryashov <urkud+nix@ya.ru>";
+  vandenoever = "Jos van den Oever <jos@vandenoever.info>";
   vbmithr = "Vincent Bernardoff <vb@luminar.eu.org>";
   vcunat = "Vladimír Čunát <vcunat@gmail.com>";
   viric = "Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric@viric.name>";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/musescore/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/musescore/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a0bb87896582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/musescore/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, makeWrapper, cmake, qt4, pkgconfig, alsaLib, portaudio, jack2, libsndfile}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "musescore-1.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/musescore/releases/MuseScore-1.3/mscore-1.3.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "a0b60cc892ac0266c58fc6392be72c0a21c3aa7fd0b6e4f1dddad1c8b36be683";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper cmake qt4 pkgconfig alsaLib portaudio jack2 libsndfile ];
+
+  configurePhase = ''
+    cd mscore;
+    mkdir build;
+    cd build;
+    cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$out -DQT_PLUGINS_DIR=$out/lib/qt4/plugins -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..'';
+
+  preBuild = ''make lrelease;'';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/mscore --prefix QT_PLUGIN_PATH : $out/lib/qt4/plugins
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Qt-based score editor";
+    homepage = http://musescore.org/;
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.vandenoever ];
+    repositories.git = https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 13dc355afb27..f39a5ba25c48 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9538,6 +9538,8 @@ let
     iceSupport = config.murmur.iceSupport or true;
   };
 
+  musescore = callPackage ../applications/audio/musescore { };
+
   mutt = callPackage ../applications/networking/mailreaders/mutt { };
 
   namecoin = callPackage ../applications/misc/namecoin { };