diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/poppler-qt5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/poppler-qt5/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0ae689034a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/poppler-qt5/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{ buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, stdenv, sip, qtbase, pyqt5, poppler, pkgconfig, fetchpatch
+, python, substituteAll
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "python-poppler-qt5";
+  version = "0.24.2";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0l69llw1fzwz8y90q0qp9q5pifbrqjjbwii7di54dwghw5fc6w1r";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    (substituteAll {
+      src = ./poppler-include-dir.patch;
+      poppler_include_dir = "${poppler.dev}/include/poppler";
+    })
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/wbsoft/python-poppler-qt5/commit/faf4d1308f89560b0d849671226e3080dfc72e79.patch";
+      sha256 = "18krhh6wzsnpxzlzv02nginb1vralla8ai24zqk10nc4mj6fkj86";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  setupPyBuildFlags = [
+    "--pyqt-sip-dir ${pyqt5}/share/sip/PyQt5"
+    "--qt-include-dir ${qtbase.dev}/include"
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ qtbase.dev poppler ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip pyqt5.dev ];
+
+  # no tests, just bindings for `poppler_qt5`
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/wbsoft/python-poppler-qt5;
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ma27 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/poppler-qt5/poppler-include-dir.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/poppler-qt5/poppler-include-dir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7106c1d6352
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/poppler-qt5/poppler-include-dir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 59a75b0..0a73268 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ class build_ext(build_ext_base):
+                              'Please specify via --pyqt-sip-flags=')
+ 
+         self.include_dirs += (self.qt_include_dir,
++                              '@poppler_include_dir@',
+                               os.path.join(self.qt_include_dir, 'QtCore'),
+                               os.path.join(self.qt_include_dir, 'QtGui'),
+                               os.path.join(self.qt_include_dir, 'QtXml'))
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-ly/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-ly/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4c1bd05f4a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-ly/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, stdenv }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "python-ly";
+  version = "0.9.5";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0x98dv7p8mg26p4816yy8hz4f34zf6hpnnfmr56msgh9jnsm2qfl";
+  };
+
+  # tests not shipped on `pypi` and
+  # seem to be broken ATM: https://github.com/wbsoft/python-ly/issues/70
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Tool and library for manipulating LilyPond files";
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ma27 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/default.nix
index 84272992f2b..af4c54d9d0d 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/default.nix
@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pythonPackages, lilypond}:
+{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, python3Packages, lilypond }:
 
-pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
+python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   name = "frescobaldi-${version}";
-  version = "2.0.16";
+  version = "3.0.0";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/releases/download/"
-          + "v2.0.16/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "12pabvq5b2lq84q3kx8lh02zh6ali6v4wnin2k2ycnm45mk9ms6q";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "wbsoft";
+    repo = "frescobaldi";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1yn18pwsjxpxz5j3yfysmaif8k0vqahj5c7ays9cxsylpg9hl7jd";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with pythonPackages; [ lilypond
-    pyqt4 poppler-qt4 pygame ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ lilypond pygame python-ly poppler-qt5 ];
 
-  patches = [ ./setup.cfg.patch ./python-path.patch ];
+  # no tests in shipped with upstream
+  doCheck = false;
 
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+  meta = with lib; {
     homepage = http://frescobaldi.org/;
     description = ''Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor'';
     longDescription = ''
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
       fonts and keyboard shortcuts
     '';
     license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.sepi ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ sepi ma27 ];
     platforms = platforms.all;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/python-path.patch b/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/python-path.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c54d9f208e..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/python-path.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-diff -u frescobaldi-2.0.16.old/frescobaldi frescobaldi-2.0.16/frescobaldi
---- frescobaldi-2.0.16/frescobaldi	2014-10-24 11:29:28.705687224 +0200
-+++ frescobaldi-2.0.16.new/frescobaldi	2014-10-24 11:31:08.086444793 +0200
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--#!/usr/bin/python
-+#!/usr/bin/env python
- import sys
- import frescobaldi_app.main
- import app
-Common subdirectories: frescobaldi-2.0.16/frescobaldi_app and frescobaldi-2.0.16.new/frescobaldi_app
-Common subdirectories: frescobaldi-2.0.16/macosx and frescobaldi-2.0.16.new/macosx
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/setup.cfg.patch b/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/setup.cfg.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 502cdd61966..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/setup.cfg.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Common subdirectories: frescobaldi-2.0.16.old/build and frescobaldi-2.0.16/build
-Common subdirectories: frescobaldi-2.0.16.old/frescobaldi_app and frescobaldi-2.0.16/frescobaldi_app
-Common subdirectories: frescobaldi-2.0.16.old/macosx and frescobaldi-2.0.16/macosx
-diff -u frescobaldi-2.0.16.old/setup.cfg frescobaldi-2.0.16/setup.cfg
---- frescobaldi-2.0.16.old/setup.cfg	2012-02-05 07:08:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ frescobaldi-2.0.16/setup.cfg	2014-10-24 15:08:48.141335620 +0200
-@@ -1,6 +1,2 @@
--[bdist_wininst]
--bitmap=frescobaldi-wininst.bmp
--install-script=frescobaldi-wininst.py
--
- [sdist]
- force-manifest=1
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index ace6a5ad2c2..b58728ba168 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2918,6 +2918,8 @@ in {
 
   python-jose = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-jose {};
 
+  python-ly = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-ly {};
+
   pyhepmc = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "pyhepmc-${version}";
     version = "0.5.0";
@@ -5698,6 +5700,11 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  poppler-qt5 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/poppler-qt5 {
+    inherit (pkgs.qt5) qtbase;
+    inherit (pkgs.libsForQt5) poppler;
+  };
+
   poyo = buildPythonPackage rec {
     version = "0.4.0";
     name = "poyo-${version}";