Theodor Hoelty-Nickel (also Theo Nickel and Theodore Hoelty-Nickel, (31 August 1894 – 20 January 1986Norwegian-American Digital Catalog) was a German-American church musician and musicologist.
Life Hoelty-Nickel was born in Güstrow, Germany and grew up in Adelaide, Australia. He studied theology and then music at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance London and at the Kirchenmusikschule Leipzig. From 1928 to 1942, he held the post of director of music at the Luther College in Decorah (Iowa). In 1941, he became music director of the Concordia Radio Station in St. Louis (Missouri/USA), then from 1943, head of the music department at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Hoelty-Nickel was the editor of a collection of Lutheran church music The Musical Heritage of the ChurchThe musical heritage of the church on WorldCat (5 volumes, 1950) (1945–1955) and The Little Bach Book.The little Bach book. on WorldCatFestschrift, Theodore Hoelty-Nickel: A Collection of Essays on Church Music on University of Virginia
Hoelty-Nickel died in Indiana at the age of 91. References
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