Reading the comments of QTBUG-47042, each QProgressDialog object will automatically display after being constructed (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-47…panel#comment-301657). It was intended to be created and destroyed once per operation. You need to either create it during operations, or call ->reset() after creating.
Interestingly enough, loading/saving big soundfonts on Windows 1.7 take a long time, but don't produce a dialog...
Thank you for the link => the problem of the progress dialog will be fixed in the next version.
It will also be displayed for the opening of a soundfont.