diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/musescore/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/musescore/default.nix
index fce756ad5cf4..f7f44b690242 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/musescore/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/musescore/default.nix
@@ -158,6 +158,29 @@ in stdenv'.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     ln -s $out/Applications/mscore.app/Contents/MacOS/mscore $out/bin/mscore
   '';
 
+  # muse-sounds-manager installs Muse Sounds sampler libMuseSamplerCoreLib.so.
+  # It requires that argv0 of the calling process ends with "/mscore" or "/MuseScore-4".
+  # We need to ensure this in two cases:
+  #
+  # 1) when the user invokes MuseScore as "mscore" on the command line or from
+  #    the .desktop file, and the normal argv0 is "mscore" (no "/");
+  # 2) when MuseScore invokes itself via File -> New, and the normal argv0 is
+  #    the target of /proc/self/exe, which in Nixpkgs was "{...}/.mscore-wrapped"
+  #
+  # In order to achieve (2) we install the final binary as $out/libexec/mscore, and
+  # in order to achieve (1) we use makeWrapper without --inherit-argv0.
+  #
+  # wrapQtAppsHook uses wrapQtApp -> wrapProgram -> makeBinaryWrapper --inherit-argv0
+  # so we disable it and explicitly use makeQtWrapper.
+  #
+  # TODO: check if something like this is also needed for macOS.
+  dontWrapQtApps = stdenv.isLinux;
+  postFixup = lib.optionalString stdenv.isLinux ''
+    mkdir -p $out/libexec
+    mv $out/bin/mscore $out/libexec
+    makeQtWrapper $out/libexec/mscore $out/bin/mscore
+  '';
+
   # Don't run bundled upstreams tests, as they require a running X window system.
   doCheck = false;
 
@@ -167,7 +190,7 @@ in stdenv'.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     description = "Music notation and composition software";
     homepage = "https://musescore.org/";
     license = licenses.gpl3Only;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ vandenoever doronbehar ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ vandenoever doronbehar orivej ];
     mainProgram = "mscore";
     platforms = platforms.unix;
   };