Portraits in American Lutheran Sacred Music, 1847-1947 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780758681416)

Author Benjamin Kolodziej presents 13 engaging and insightul biographical portraits of significant musicians from The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod.

These musicians were influential leaders in the teaching and practice of Lutheran music in the first century of the Missouri Synod. Drawing on letters, diaries, and firsthand accounts, the stories of these musicians not only reveal the development of American Lutheran sacred music but also provide a guide for singing, teaching, and playing sacred music in our own time.

Read about: Johann Friedreich Ferdinand Winter, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther, Christian August Thomas Selle, Karl Brauer, Friedrich Lochner, Friedrich Otto Reuter, George Christopher Albert Kaeppel, Martin Gustav Carl Lochner, Albert Beck, Walter Wismar, Edward Rechlin, Karl Louis Haase, and Theodore George Wilhelm Stelzer.