The Coffee Hour — Portraits in American Lutheran Sacred Music, Ep. 6: The Lochner Family

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Who is Friedrich Lochner and how did his vocation as a pastor shape congregational singing for the future of LCMS congregations? Benjamin Kolodziej (Church Organist and Musicologist, author of Portraits in American Lutheran Sacred Music, 1847-1947 available from Concordia Publishing House) joins Andy and Sarah for Episode 6 of our series on Portraits in American Lutheran Sacred Music. Benjamin talks about Friedrich Lochner (an LCMS founder), what brought the Lochner family to the United States, how rationalism and pietism were shaping the church’s music at that time, why hymnology was important to immigrant Lutherans, the place of hymnology in the church as well as the formation of church workers, and the partnership between Lochner and his kantor Christian Diez.

Find Benjamin Kolodziej’s book Portraits in American Lutheran Sacred Music, 1847-1947 at cph.org/portraits-in-american-lutheran-sacred-music. Find all episodes in this series at kfuo.org/tag/portraits-in-american-lutheran-sacred-music.

For more information on the book release event in Missouri this weekend, visit facebook.com/events/1500931187738079.