diff --git a/media-sound/frescobaldi/Manifest b/media-sound/frescobaldi/Manifest
index 27a4db4dfd7d6..a31bbeb751bba 100644
--- a/media-sound/frescobaldi/Manifest
+++ b/media-sound/frescobaldi/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST frescobaldi-3.3.0.tar.gz 9196964 BLAKE2B 52e0c39e3a9fd70f5e450dd45cd0c0c0683b8c0af243d568e765f351500da138c0e527a579245c3d72e628d6a940003c62e1d70b6cff8ecb55d7214b7def8093 SHA512 0dc851cb2ab001f366d20d3c27159087a643cbb5661cc7388b9ec5209c03d4d47dc9114f378dab0562a1a4cb84c2a67eddd8b1981ceaa057e5ac79f8c277ad05
+DIST frescobaldi-4.0.0.tar.gz 8647722 BLAKE2B d37fc55e7519cfbe2235736f0411461261936df34a454f318a9c26917546b6c39bfddf81c4fe521b1891192257ba14f7f7f159641e19993a056ea09121464739 SHA512 551d3681f0b80ef10cbc5ef33fcf61152a7063eb0bed46386711fcc424d9ecce28d6c11dd0a368d5a479bd4b92fb5e93d8de49545063a5d7175625fc37bcbf01
diff --git a/media-sound/frescobaldi/frescobaldi-4.0.0.ebuild b/media-sound/frescobaldi/frescobaldi-4.0.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9ba380ed77864
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-sound/frescobaldi/frescobaldi-4.0.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
+inherit desktop distutils-r1 xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="A LilyPond sheet music text editor"
+HOMEPAGE="https://frescobaldi.org/"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/pyqt6-webengine[widgets,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pyqt6[gui,network,printsupport,svg,webchannel,widgets,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/python-ly[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/qpageview-1.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	')
+	media-libs/portmidi
+	media-sound/lilypond
+	x11-themes/tango-icon-theme
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	sys-devel/gettext
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+
+	# INSTALL.md suggests that we can do this to use tango-icon-theme
+	rm -r frescobaldi/icons/Tango || die
+
+	# formerly these commands used a Makefile, but they've been moved to
+	# tox.ini and do not really want to depend on tox just for this
+	"${EPYTHON}" i18n/mo-gen.py || die
+	msgfmt --desktop -d i18n/frescobaldi \
+		--template linux/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi.desktop.in \
+		-o linux/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi.desktop || die
+	msgfmt --xml -d i18n/frescobaldi \
+		--template linux/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi.metainfo.xml.in \
+		-o linux/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi.metainfo.xml || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	# messy workaround for https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1898
+	python_domodule frescobaldi
+
+	distutils-r1_src_install
+
+	dodoc CHANGELOG.md
+	doman frescobaldi.1
+
+	domenu linux/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi.desktop
+	doicon frescobaldi/icons/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi.svg
+
+	insinto /usr/share/metainfo
+	doins linux/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi.metainfo.xml
+}