Donald Busarow has been recognized as one of 10 contemporary composers featured on a new musical compilation examining the history of Lutheran church music.

Titled Celebrating the Musical Heritage of the Lutheran Church, the five-CD multimedia set, produced by Thrivent Financial and available to Thrivent members only, cites Busarow for his numerous chorale concertatos involving choir, instruments, organ and congregation.

Busarow, professor of music, university organist and director of the world-renowned Wittenberg Choir, joins Johann Sebastian Bach and other famous composers in the compilation, who have built the long legacy of musical contributions by Lutherans.

“ Busarow,” according to the set, is “a prolific composer of choral, vocal and instrumental works for congregational worship.”

Every Sunday, Busarow’s works are sung by Christian worshippers worldwide. Several of his harmonizations appear in the Lutheran Book of Worship and in Lutheran Worship, and 26 of his hymn preludes and intonations were commissioned for the 42-volume collection The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series.

His compositions, including commissioned works, number more than 200, and he has won several awards for his original compositions. In addition, his a capella arrangement of the national anthem, performed by The Wittenberg Choir during its 2002 East Coast tour, was hailed by one New York music critic as a piece that “provided a new understanding of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner.’”

A member of the Wittenberg faculty since 1975, Busarow regularly presents hymn festivals and organ recitals, and he serves as clinician for both choral and organ workshops around the country.