Lowden came from a mu­sic­al fam­i­ly—his fa­ther is said to have played the trump­et while rock­ing Carl’s cra­dle, and his mo­ther played the or­gan. By age 12, Carl was sell­ing com­po­si­tions to Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, and con­duct­ing the church or­ches­tra by the time he was a teen­ag­er.

Lowden was as­so­ci­at­ed both with the Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny and with mu­sic pub­lish­er John J. Hood. In 1913, he be­came mu­sic ed­it­or for the Re­formed Church in Amer­i­ca. He lat­er went in­to bus­i­ness for him­self (though he failed dur­ing the Great De­press­ion of the 1930s). He then taught at the Bi­ble In­sti­tute of Penn­syl­van­ia, and was the min­is­ter of mu­sic at the Lin­den Bap­tist Church in Cam­den, New Jer­sey. His works in­clude:

• Beginner and Pri­ma­ry Songs for Use in Sun­day School and the Home (with Ru­fus Wild­er Mill­er) (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: The Hei­del­berg Press, 1915)

Sources

Music

1. Easter, Joy­ous East­er
2. Geneva
3. Lowden
4. Sing Out Your Glad­some Car­ols
5. Where the Day Has No End (© 1938)