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Matthew Nathanael Lundquist

1886–1964

A musician, teacher, and hymn scholar, he wrote with a deep interest in Lutheran worship and the history of sacred song. His work opens a window onto how hymns carry theology, poetry, and congregational life together.

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Hymnological Studies

Hymnological Studies

by Matthew Nathanael Lundquist

About the author

Matthew Nathanael Lundquist (1886–1964) was an American musician and writer whose surviving published work centers on church music and hymnology. Project Gutenberg’s record for Hymnological Studies identifies him by those dates, and the book itself is aimed especially at Lutheran organists and choir directors.

Contemporary material from Redfield Conservatory of Music describes him as the school’s director and presents him as a highly trained music educator. That source says he studied at Augustana College, Chicago Musical College, and the Midwestern Conservatory of Music in Des Moines, where he received a Bachelor of Music, and that he also spent further years studying in New York.

Lundquist appears to have worked across both teaching and writing. In addition to Hymnological Studies, library and book records connect him with works such as Later Renaissance Motets (1524–1580) and Music in the Evolution of Civilization, suggesting broad interests that ranged from Lutheran hymn traditions to earlier choral music and the larger place of music in culture.