Meiland, Jakob
Meiland, Jakob
Meiland, Jakob, German composer; b. Senftenberg, Lausitz, 1542; d. Hechingen, Dec. 31, 1577. He was a choirboy in the Dresden Hofkapelle, and in 1558 he enrolled at the Univ. of Leipzig. In 1563 joined the Kantorei of the Protestant Margrave Georg Friedrich of Brandenburg-Ansbach, becoming its director in 1564. In 1565 founded its Hofkapelle and served as its first director. He moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1572 and to Celle in 1576. In 1577 he became Kapellmeister to Count Eitel Friedrich von Hohenzollern of Hechingen, but died that same year.
Works
Cantiones sacrae cum harmonias numeris, a 5, 6 (Nuremberg, 1564; 4th ed., 1573); Selectae cantiones, a 5, 6 (1572); Cantiones aliquot novae...quibus adiuncta sunt officia due, a 5 (Frankfurt am Main, 1575); Sacrae aliquot cantiones latinae et germanicae...sequentes duas cantiones in honorem domini Sigismundi Feyerabend et Hieronymi eius filii, a 4, 5 (Frankfurt am Main, 1575); Harmoniae sacrae selectae ac compositiones divinae, a 5 (Erfurt, 1588); Cygneae cantiones latinae et germanicae, a 4, 5 (Wittenberg, 1590); 3 Passions; Mass; secular songs; etc.
Bibliography
R. Oppel, j. M. (1542–1577) (Pfungstadt, 1911).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire