diff --git a/Casks/musescore.rb b/Casks/musescore.rb
index 9cbb92cf3665..1a5644173283 100644
--- a/Casks/musescore.rb
+++ b/Casks/musescore.rb
@@ -10,4 +10,14 @@
   depends_on macos: '>= :lion'
 
   app "MuseScore #{version.major}.app"
+  # shim script (https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/18809)
+  shimscript = "#{staged_path}/mscore.wrapper.sh"
+  binary shimscript, target: 'mscore'
+
+  preflight do
+    IO.write shimscript, <<~EOS
+      #!/bin/sh
+      exec '#{appdir}/MuseScore #{version.major}.app/Contents/MacOS/mscore' "$@"
+    EOS
+  end
 end