Julius Johannes Weiland (ca. 1605 – 2 April 1663) was a minor German composer. He was a singer and harpsichordist at the Wolfenbüttel court at the time of

Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Augustus II (10 April 1579 – 17 September 1666), called the Younger (german: August der Jüngere), a member of the House of Welf was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In the estate division of the House of Welf of 1635, he received the Princ ...

. With Johann Jacob Löwe (1628–1703), organist at

Eisenach Eisenach () is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, located west of Erfurt, southeast of Kassel and northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia and bordering northeastern Hessian regions, situat ...

, he published ''Zweyer gleichgesinnten Freunde Tugend- und Schertz Lieder'' (1657). He died in

Wolfenbüttel Wolfenbüttel (; nds, Wulfenbüddel) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the administrative capital of Wolfenbüttel District. It is best known as the location of the internationally renowned Herzog August Library and for having the largest c ...

. The small number of surviving works include: * ''Salve Jesu'' 3 voices, 2 violins and

basso continuo Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing th ...

, * ''Veni sancte spiritus'' a 6, * ''Factum est proelium magnum''.Geoffrey Webber ''North German church music in the age of Buxtehude'' 1996 p88

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* German Baroque composers 1605 births 1663 deaths Year of birth uncertain 17th-century classical composers German male classical composers 17th-century male musicians {{Germany-composer-stub