diff --git a/pkgs/misc/lilypond/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/lilypond/default.nix
index fb17e5e5a2d7..e9f8d6984af9 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/lilypond/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/lilypond/default.nix
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, ghostscript, texinfo, imagemagick, texi2html, guile
+{ stdenv, fetchgit, ghostscript, texinfo, imagemagick, texi2html, guile
 , python2, gettext, flex, perl, bison, pkgconfig, autoreconfHook, dblatex
 , fontconfig, freetype, pango, fontforge, help2man, zip, netpbm, groff
-, fetchsvn, makeWrapper, t1utils
+, makeWrapper, t1utils
 , texlive, tex ? texlive.combine {
     inherit (texlive) scheme-small lh metafont epsf;
   }
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec{
-  majorVersion="2.18";
-  minorVersion="2";
-  version="${majorVersion}.${minorVersion}";
-  name = "lilypond-${version}";
+let
 
-  urwfonts = fetchsvn {
-    url = "http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/tags/urw-fonts-1.0.7pre44";
-    sha256 = "0al5vdsb66db6yzwi0qgs1dnd1i1fb77cigdjxg8zxhhwf6hhwpn";
-  };
+  version = "2.18.2";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/sources/v${majorVersion}/lilypond-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "01xs9x2wjj7w9appaaqdhk15r1xvvdbz9qwahzhppfmhclvp779j";
+in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "lilypond";
+  inherit version;
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/lilypond.git";
+    rev = "release/${version}-1";
+    sha256 = "0fk045fmmb6fcv7jdvkbqr04qlwnxzwclr2gzx3gja714xy6a76x";
   };
 
   postInstall = ''
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec{
     done
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = [ "--disable-documentation" "--with-ncsb-dir=${urwfonts}"];
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--disable-documentation"
+    "--with-ncsb-dir=${ghostscript}/share/ghostscript/fonts"
+  ];
 
   preConfigure = ''
     sed -e "s@mem=mf2pt1@mem=$PWD/mf/mf2pt1@" -i scripts/build/mf2pt1.pl
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec{
     description = "Music typesetting system";
     homepage = http://lilypond.org/;
     license = licenses.gpl3;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.marcweber ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ marcweber yurrriq ];
     platforms = platforms.all;
   };