De­cem­ber 10, 1815, Hoch­dorf (near Stutt­gart), Ger­ma­ny.

Ju­ly 1882, Cann­stadt, Ger­ma­ny.

Zundel re­ceived his first mu­sic­al ed­u­ca­tion at the Roy­al Acad­e­my of Ess­ling­en, Würt­tem­berg (1829-31). In 1833, he be­came a mu­sic teach­er in a sem­in­a­ry at Ess­ling­en, at the same time stu­dy­ing vi­o­lin un­der Mo­lique. In 1840, he moved to St. Pe­ters­burg, Russ­ia, to work as a band­mas­ter and or­gan­ist. He em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1847, and played the or­gan at the Un­i­tar­i­an Church in Brook­lyn, New York, then at Ply­mouth Church, Brook­lyn (1850-78, with some in­ter­rupt­ions). The Ply­mouth Church pas­tor was Hen­ry Beech­er, af­ter whom Zun­del’s fa­mous tune is named. Zun­del helped ed­it Beech­er’s 1855 Ply­mouth Col­lect­ion of Hymns, the first ma­jor hym­nal with mu­sic on the same page as the lyr­ics. Zun­del’s other works in­clude:

• The Am­a­teur Or­gan­ist, 1854
• Psalmody, 1855 (ed­it­or)
• Modern Or­gan-School (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: 1860)
• Treatise on Har­mo­ny and Mo­du­la­tion
• Christian Heart Songs, 1870
• School Har­mo­nist, with James E. Ry­an (New York: Amer­i­can Book Com­pa­ny, 1873)

Zundel re­tired to Ger­ma­ny in 1877.

• Erickson, p. 432
• Hustad, p. 348
• Jones, p. 182
• Nutter, p. 469

1. Beecher
2. Brooklyn
3. Lebanon
4. Zundel