Salve Musarum cultor (Jacob Meiland)

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• (Posted 2022-01-21)  CPDL #67682:         

Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2022-01-21).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 142 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third because of the chiavette used.

• (Posted 2022-01-21)  CPDL #67681:         

Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2022-01-21).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 140 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original pitch.

General Information

Title: Salve Musarum cultor
Composer: Jacob Meiland
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Unknown

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1576 in Cantiones aliquot novae (Jacob Meiland), no. 9
Description: In praise of Johann Schweikhard (1553 - 1626), then provost of the monastery St. Peter in Mainz (at the age of 23!). He was a member of a noble family from Kronberg (in the Taunus, a low mountain range northwest of Frankfurt) already helding high posts at the episcopal court in Mainz. He was to become archbishop of Mainz in 1604, which meant that he was also Elector and Arch Chancellor of the Empire; appallingly, he was a stout witch-hunter. He studied at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome before he returned shortly before 1576, a fact which is alluded to in the text.

Original text and translations

Latin text Salve, Musarum cultor, Suicarde Johannes, A Cronbergiacis nobile stemma trahens, Qui Latio rediens sacras non desinis artes Mirari, veras nobilitatis opes. Vive diu felix, ac suscipe fronte serena Meilandi harmonicis carmina texta modis.

German translation Sei gegrüßt, Verehrer der Musen, Johann Schweikhard, von edlem Kronberger Stamm entsprießend, der du, aus Rom zurückkehrend, nicht abließest, die geistlichen Künste zu bewundern, wahre Mächte der Vortrefflichkeit. Lang mögest du glücklich leben, und mit freundlicher Miene empfangen Meilands harmonisch gewebte Gesänge. Translation by Gerhard Weydt

English translation All hail, worshipper of the Muses, Johann Schweikhard, stemming from noble Cronberg family, who, returning from Rome, did not desist to admire the sacred arts, true powers of nobility. Long may you live, and accept with amiable countenance Meiland’s songs harmonically woven. Translation by Gerhard Weydt