Servaes van der Meulen

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Servaes van der Meulen (born 1525 in Antwerp or Mechelen; died 1592) was a Franco-Flemish composer and organist of the Renaissance. Servaes van der Meulen was an organist at the St. Gertrudskirche in Bergen-op-Zoom and at a chapel of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Antwerp. During his term of office, he was able to prevent the followers of Calvinism from dismantling the large organ of Antwerp Cathedral in the spring of 1581. In addition, the Calvinist magistrate of the city has allowed him to keep his post as an organist. When the Republic of Antwerp was overthrown in 1585 and the city was taken over, Alexandre Farnèse demanded that Servaes van der Meulen, who was considered a deviant, be removed from all his posts. The Council of the Church Administration then agreed, at the request of the Duke of Parma, that Van der Meulen would receive an annual pension. His successor in this position was Raymond (or Rombout) Waelrant. No information has been passed on about the composer's further years of life. Van der Meulen appears as the composer of a four-part chanson, which was published in the collection Dat ierste boeck vanden nieuwe Duijtsche liedekens by the publisher Jacob Baethen in Maastricht in 1554. This chanson begins with the text "Altijd so moet ic trueren en swaerelick tried" (I am constantly in great need). This song was again included in the collection of Dutch songs Een Duijtsch musijk boeck, published by Pierre Phalèse in 1572. It is a love song in which the lover address

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