Jakob Meiland
Illustration — Jakob Meiland (1575) Jakob Meiland (Senftenberg, 1542 – Hechingen, 31 December 1577) was a German composer. Matthew Passion follows the model of Johann Walter's first Lutheran passion historia (c. 1530) but has more elaborate choral numbers.
Jakob Meiland

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- 1542 · Senftenberg.
- Died
- 1577 · Hechingen.
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- Germany
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- German
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• St Matthew Passion • Sacrae aliquot cantiones latinae et germanicae, quinqué et quatuor vocum Frankfurt 1575
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- 1.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)"
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