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VITA LAUDANDA

VITA LAUDANDA
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Essays in Memory of Ulrich S. Leupold
Edited by Erich R.W. Schultz
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
COPYRIGHT 1976
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS WATERLOO, ONTARIO, CANADA
ISBN - 0-88920-021-1 - (paper)
Cover Design: Michael Baldwin
CONTENTS
List of Contributors
Preface
Biographical Sketch
THE UNITY AND VARIETY OF THE GOSPEL
by David Granskou
REDAKTIONSGESCHICHTE AND ROMAN ORDO: SOME PRINCIPLES AND PROBLEMS IN PERICOPE REFORM
by John Reumann
THE DEATH-RESURRECTION MOTIF
by Eduard R. Riegert
JESUS ESCHATOLOGICAL CONCERN FOR POOR FOLK: AN EXEGETICAL STUDY OF LUKE 6:20-21, 24-25
by Donald Himmelman
THE NEW MASS IN PROTESTANT PERSPECTIVE
by Vilmos Vajta
THE SEARCH FOR A NEW SONG: DEVELOPMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY HYMNODY IN THE AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCHES
by Charles R. Anders
REVISION OF THE COLLECTS: AN EXPERIMENT
by Edgar S. Brown
THE POLYPHONY OF LIFE : REFERENCES TO MUSIC IN BONHOEFFER S LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON
by Walter Kemp
HEINRICH SCHUETZ (Sagittarius)
by Walter Buszin
Quotations
Bibliography
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
CHARLES R. ANDERS is Professor, Department of Music, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.
EDGAR S. BROWN, Jr. is Chaplain, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa.
WALTER BUSZIN was Professor Emeritus, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. (d. 1973).
DAVID GRANSKOU is Professor and Chairman of the School of Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University, and was Dr. Leupold s successor as Professor of New Testament Studies, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary.
DONALD HIMMELMAN is Pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Belleville, Ontario.
WALTER KEMP is Associate Professor, Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University.
JOHN REUMANN is Professor, Biblical Department, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pa.
EDUARD R. RIEGERT is Associate Professor in Homiletics and Liturgics, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary and was Dr. Leupold s successor in the field of Liturgics.
ERICH R. W. SCHULTZ is University Librarian and Archivist, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.
VILMOS VAJTA is Research Professor, Institute for Ecumenical Research, Lutheran World Federation, Strasbourg, France.
PREFACE
Colleagues, former students, and friends have contributed essays for this volume in memory of Rick Leupold. My thanks to all for their participation.
Thanks also to Miss Irene Doehn, Secretary to the University Librarian, for typing the correspondence and parts of the manuscript and to the staff members of Wilfrid Laurier University Press for their work in the preparation of this volume. Finally, my thanks to Dr. Norman Wagner, Chairman, and the members of the Research and Publications Committee for including it in the University Press publications.
Erich R. W. Schultz
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Erich R. W. Schultz
It is not too surprising that Ulrich Siegfried Leupold studied music. His mother, Gertrude, nee Igel, was a professional singer and his father, Anton Wilhelm Leupold, was the distinguished organist of the historic St. Peter s Church in Berlin. After attending the Hohenzollern Gymnasium, Berlin-Sch neberg, from which he matriculated in 1927, he studied at the University of Berlin from which he received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Musicology in 1932. At the age of twenty-three, he was the youngest recipient of this degree in the history of the University. His dissertation, Die liturgischen Ges nge der evangelischen Kirche im Zeitalter der Aufkl rung und der Romantik, was published in 1933 since it was recognized as an important contribution to the field. Having completed his formal education in music, he turned his attention to theology. Because of the rise of Nazism in Germany, he attended the underground Seminary of the Confessing Church, 1935-1937. He spent one year of post-graduate theological studies at the University of Zurich.
In opposition to the Nazi regime, he fled to America just prior to World War II and through the efforts of his close personal friend, Dr. Frederick M. Otto, he came to the United States where he was Minister of Music at Augsburg Lutheran Church, Toledo, Ohio. Unable to obtain a permanent visa to stay in the United States, he migrated to Canada.
He was ordained on June 12, 1939, at the annual convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Canada in St. Paul s Lutheran Church, Neustadt, Ontario, and served St. Matthew s Lutheran Church, Kitchener, Ontario, from 1939 to 1942 as Assistant Pastor, Organist, and Choir Director. On July 11, 1942, he married Gertrude Daber, a member of the congregation. Their family includes a daughter Marcia and a son Mark. The same summer he assumed the pastorate of Christ Lutheran Church, Maynooth, Ontario. His love for this rural parish and this part of Ontario was often mentioned in classes and conversation. The contact with this parish gave him a real insight into the needs of the small parish and influenced his subsequent work and writing in liturgy and hymnody.
It was in April of 1945 that the Board of the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada extended a call to Ulrich Leupold to become Assistant Professor of Music in Waterloo College and Professor of New Testament Studies and Church Music in the Seminary. He accepted this call and thus began his twenty-five year association with Waterloo College, its successor Waterloo Lutheran University, and Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. He was installed on September 30, 1945, by Dr. John Schmieder, the pastor of St. Matthew s, Kitchener, and President of the Board of Governors in St. John s Lutheran Church, Waterloo, Ontario. His inaugural address was entitled, The Formative Principle in Lutheran Church Art.
In addition to his well prepared and well received lectures on music and theology in the College and Seminary, he conducted a College Choir, a Male Chorus and a Seminary Choir over the years. It was the Male Chorus in particular that travelled throughout the Synod and sang in Ontario High Schools assisting with student recruitment for the College and Seminary.
In 1957 he was appointed Dean of the Seminary, having been Acting Dean for some years. Upon the retirement of Principal J. Ray Houser in 1968, he was named Acting Principal and confirmed in this position in 1969. Unfortunately his serious illness began shortly thereafter and he held this position for only one year prior to his death on June 9, 1970.
In the Synod he was a member of the Worship and Music Committee and its Chairman for many years. He planned Summer School Music Institutes for church organists and choir directors in the 1950 s and 1960 s so that they might understand their role better and appreciate the rich Lutheran heritage. Church music education was also given, almost month by month, through his column Musical Echoes which appeared in the Canada Lutheran, the official publication of the Eastern Canada Synod, from March, 1941, until September, 1962.
On numerous occasions he preached in the congregations of Synod as a supply pastor on a Sunday morning, as a guest speaker for organ dedications and choir convocations. He frequently spoke on theological and musical themes to the auxiliaries of the church, at Conferences and District meetings and was always heard with keen anticipation. His renown as a speaker, musicologist, and New Testament scholar extended to other denominations as well.
At Mount Zion Lutheran Church, Waterloo, Ontario, of which he was a charter member, he contributed his services as pianist and later as organist assisting in the establishment of this mission congregation. He was instrumental in obtaining a small pipe organ for the first unit in 1961.
He was a member of the Faith and Order Study Commission, Canadian Council of Churches. He was a delegate to various meetings of the Canadian Lutheran Council and its successor, the Lutheran Council in Canada, and participated in the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue in Canada. He was a delegate to the meeting of the World Council of Churches in Montreal.
In 1966 he was elected President of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. The Presidential address, Worship and Music in Ancient Israel was well received and reprinted in two publications. In 1967, Canada s Centennial year, he received the Centennial Medal. In 1969 his contribution to the field of New Testament and Canadian church music was recognized by Knox College, University of Toronto, when he was awarded an honourary Doctor of Divinity degree. He gave the convocation address entitled Varieties of Discipleship.
He was a member of the Department of Worship of the United Lutheran Church in America and the Commission on Worship of the Lutheran Church in America and was elected Chairman of the latter in 1965. He also served on the Church s Commissions on baptism and communion practices. He was an original member of the Joint Commission on the Liturgy and Hymnal which led to the publication of the Service Book and Hymnal in 1958. His influence and background were felt on this Commission and through his efforts many chorales and hymns with folk melodies were included. After the completion of this task he served on the Commission for the Spanish Hymnal for Lutheran use in Latin America.
It was only natural that he should be selected as a member of the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship in 1967, for which he wrote a paper, The Present Crisis in Hymn-Writing. This was reprinted in Dr. Franklin Clark Fry s column State of the Church which was distributed to all LCA pastors. Dr. Leupold suggested that there should be at least four settings in the first volume of Lit