Jacob Meiland
Aliases: Jacob Meyland; Jacob Mayland; Jakob Meiland
Life
Born: 1542
Died: 1577
Biography Jacob Meiland got his musical education in the church choir in Dresden, then studied at Leipzig university. From 1564 to 1572 he served as choir master in Ansbach. By his contemporaries he was esteemed as much as Orlando di Lasso and Jacobus Clemens non Papa. By the German (Neo-Latin) poet, translator and composer Paulus Melissus Meiland was compared thus with Orlando di Lasso: "if Lasso had passed away, Meiland could be regarded his heir" (in a poem in Meiland's collection Sacrae aliquot cantiones). Unfortunately he died very young, due to ill health.
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List of choral works
Sacred works in Latin
Sacred works in German
Secular works in Latin
Secular works in German
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Publications
- Cantiones sacrae quinque et sex vocum (Nuremberg, 1564, with reprints in 1569, 1572, 1573)
- Newe ausserlesene Teutsche Liedlin, mit fünff und vier Stimmen (Nuremberg, 1569)
- Neuwe außerlesene Teutsche Gesäng mit vier vnd fünff stimmen (Frankfurt, 1575)
- Sacrae aliquot cantiones latinae et germanicae (Frankfurt, 1575)
- Cantiones aliquot novae quinque vocibus (Frankfurt, 1576)
- Harmoniae sacrae quinque vocum (Erfurt, 1588)
- Cygneae cantiones latinae et germanicae (Wittenberg, 1590)
External links
German detailed article in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie