Jakob Meiland (

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, 1542 –

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, 31 December 1577) was a German composer. His ''St. Matthew Passion'' follows the model of

Johann Walter Johann Walter, also known as ''Johann Walther'' or ''Johannes Walter'' (original name: ''Johann Blankenmüller'') (1496 – 25 March 1570), was a Lutheran composer and poet during the Reformation period. Life Walter was born in Kahla, in present- ...

's first Lutheran passion ''historia'' (c. 1530) but has more elaborate choral numbers.Howard E. Smither ''History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque ...'' 2012 p.5 "This Passion by Walter was a model for numerous other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century works, including an anonymous St. Matthew Passion (attributed to Walter) in a manuscript of 1573 and the St. Matthew Passions by Jakob Meiland (1570), Samuel Besler (1611), and Melchior Vulpius (1613)"

Works

* St Matthew Passion * Sacrae aliquot cantiones latinae et germanicae, quinqué et quatuor vocum Frankfurt 1575

References

1542 births 1577 deaths 16th-century German composers German Baroque composers {{Germany-composer-stub