Johan van der Meer (26 November 1913 – 24 April 2011) was a Dutch choral conductor and pioneer in the field of historically informed performance.

The regular orchestra, the Noordelijk Filharmonisch Orkest, was not available for a performance of Bach's Magnificat, instead van der Meer could work with Harnoncourt's Concentus Musicus Wien.

[1] Van der Meer focused on period instruments, all male voices for the soloists, musical rhetoric and dramatic declamation.

[1] In 1975, he conducted and recorded Bach's Mass in B minor at the Holland Festival, the orchestra was La Petite Bande with concert master Sigiswald Kuijken).

[6] He also recorded vocal works by composers such as Heinrich Schütz, Josquin Desprez, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and George Frideric Handel.