Theodor Hoelty-Nickel

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Theodor Hoelty-Nickel (also Theo Nickel or Theodore Hoelty-Nickel , born August 31, 1894 in Güstrow , † 1986 ) was a German-American church musician and musicologist.

Life

Theodor Hoelty-Nickel grew up in Adelaide, Australia . He studied theology and then music at Trinity College London and at the Church Music School in Leipzig . From 1928 to 1942 he held the post of music director of the Luther College in Decorah ( Iowa ). In 1941 he became musical director of Concordia Radio Station in St. Louis (Missouri / USA), then from 1943 director of the music department at Valparaiso University in Indiana . Theodor Hoelty-Nickel was editor of a collection of Lutheran church music The Musical Heritage of the Church (1945–1955) and The Little Bach Book (5 volumes, 1950).

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4312 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norwegian-American Digital Catalog
personal data
SURNAME Hoelty-Nickel, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nickel, Theo; Hoelty-Nickel, Theodore (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American church musician and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH 1986