Sigtenhorst Meyer, Bernhard van den (1888–1953)

Dutch musicologist and composer. He edited works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621) and also wrote books on him. He studied with Zweers, D de Lange and others and later in Paris, afterwards travelling to Java and the Far East. He returned to Amsterdam, but moved to The Hague, where he lived for many years.

Works Stage incidental music to Tagore's play The King's Letter.

Choral oratorio The Temptation of Buddha, Stabat Mater, Hymn to the Sun (St Francis of Assisi).

Other two string quartets; songs.