Jacob Meiland

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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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View the German Wikipedia article on Jacob Meiland. (English translation by Google)

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

External links

German detailed article in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie