Bernard Meyer (died 1713)Daniel Croner: Tabulaturae (1681, 1682). András Pernye, Katalin Szilvia Fittler, Dániel Benkő, eds (1988) Editio Musica Budapest (EMB 8731). was a German musician who worked at the electoral court in Zerbst from 1634.W. C. Printz. Historische Beschrei-bung (Dresden, 1690). 148.John H. Baron. 'A 17th-Century Keyboard Tablature in Brasov'. Journal of the American Musicological Society (Summer, 1967, Vol. 20, No. 2). 279-285. Online resource, accessed 11 July 2026.
Career From about 1670 Bernhard Meyer was a chamber musician and organist employed at the princely court of Anhalt-Zerbst until his death in 1713.Wolfgang Caspar Printz (1690) Historische Beschreibung der edelen Sing- und Kling-Kunst, Chapter 12, paragraph 83. Online resource. accessed 8 October 2026.,Johann Gottfried Walther (1732) 'Meyer (Bernhard)' in Musicalisches Lexicon. Online resource, accessed 8 October 2026.
Mayer was the teacher of Heinrich Michael Keller (1638–1710), an organist in Frankenhausen.Auke Jongbloed, 'Bernhard Meyer, Meine Seele erhebet den Herren'. (Staatsbliothek Berlin Mus. ms. 30439).Partitura Organum. 21 June 2018. Online resource accessed 11 July 2026.
Meyer was the author of a treatise and some organ pieces dated 1673, whereabout currently unknown.E. L. Gerber (ed) Neues bistorisch-biographisches Lexicon der Tonkünstler: III (Leipzig, 1813) 412.
Selected works For choir 1677. Hoch-fürstliche Bernburgische Trauer-Ode for SATB voices and basso continuo.Meyer, Bernhard. 'Hoch-fürstliche Bernburgische Trauer-Ode, V (5), bc'. RISM Catalog. Online resource, accessed 8 September 2026. 1681. Trauer- und Lob-Gedicht for SATB voices and basso continuo.Meyer, Bernhard. 'Trauer- und Lob-Gedicht, V (5), bc'. RISM Catalog. Online resource, accessed 8 September 2026.
For organ 1673. In 1813 Meyer was noted as the author of a treatise and some organ pieces dated 1673. In 1681 Daniel Croner copied three pieces by Meyer into his 1681 'Tablatura' collection: no. 67 in Em (Toccata 3t[ert]ii Toni Durch Mordantern), no. 68 in Em (Fuga Simplex Tertii Modi), no. 69 in Am (Fuga ex A). 1700?. 'Meine Seele erhebet den Herren': chorale partita.
External links Bernhard Meyer (d,1713) Toccata 3tii Toni Durch Mordanem played on the organ by Andrew PInk.'Andrew Pink: organist playlist | Daniel Croner’s ‘Tabulatura’ (1681) ... . Online resource, accessed 3 October 2026. References