author
Matthew Nathanael Lundquist
1886–1964
A Lutheran musician and scholar, he wrote clearly and practically about hymnody for church musicians and students. His best-known work explores how hymns function as both poetry and worship within the Lutheran tradition.
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Hymnological Studies
by Matthew Nathanael Lundquist
About the author
Matthew Nathanael Lundquist was an American writer, composer, and music scholar associated with Lutheran church music. The sources found for him consistently connect his name with Hymnological Studies, a concise but thoughtful book on the history, character, and use of hymns in Lutheran worship.
His work suggests a teacher’s mindset: careful, orderly, and aimed at helping organists, choir directors, and readers understand hymnody not just as music, but as a living part of religious life. A 1926 preface to Hymnological Studies places him at Wartburg College in Clinton, Iowa, and other catalog and music-reference sources list additional sacred and choral works under his name.
Reliable biographical detail about his personal life appears limited in the sources available here, so it is safest to remember him chiefly through his published work and his contribution to Lutheran musical scholarship.