Gregor Linßen

Gregor Linßen at a concert on Domplatz in Regensburg (2008)

Gregor Linßen (born August 19, 1966 in Neuss ) is a German composer and songwriter .

Linßen studied at the Düsseldorf Music Academy to become a sound and visual engineer with a major in transverse flute .

After seven years with the Ruhama group , he founded the AMI group in 1993. Linßen lives and works as a composer and songwriter, freelance sound engineer and speaker for New Spiritual Song (NGL) in Neuss. Since 1996 he has been a lecturer for NGL at the church music school in Essen , until 2007 he was also at the Cologne University of Music and the Catholic University for Church Music St. Gregorius in Aachen .

Works (selection)

• 1989 Song of Silence , Meditations
• 1991 Song of Light , songs of a mass
• 1992 We have thirst , overture to the closing service of the 91st German Catholic Day in Karlsruhe
• 1993 Traces of the One World , Latin American songs
• 1994 Oh Lord help us , motto song for the pilgrimage of the Archdiocese of Cologne to Rome
• 1994 Between Ja and Amen , KJG Songbook Special NGL, an excellent NGL anthology
• 1995 He elevates the lowly , motet to the Magnificat
• 1996 A Friend's Legacy , Songs of Life and Death
• 1998 The Trace of Tomorrow , NGL oratorio, premiered with the AMI group and the Diocesan Youth Choir Freiburg im Breisgau in Jerusalem
• 2000 thousand years like a day , a fair
• 2000 And the word came true on the XV. World Youth Day
• 2001 The Duration of the Moment , songs of special moments in the encounter between God and man
• 2002 ADAM - The Search for Man , NGL Oratorio, world premiere on August 7, 2002 in Assisi , Basilica San Francesco
• 2004 Here I am , Overture of the Peace Service of the International Bell Days in Strasbourg Cathedral
• 2004 Venimus adorare eum , motto song of the XX. World Youth Day in Cologne 2005
• 2005 We stand before you , song for the 96th Katholikentag in Saarbrücken 2006
• 2007 PETRUS and the rooster , NGL oratorio. First performed on August 7, 2007 in the Lateran Basilica, Rome
• 2009 Come and see , songs for a living liturgy. First performed on October 25th, 2009 in St. Judas Thaddäus, Karlsruhe- Neureut
• 2010 Hope remains , motto song for the 2nd Ecumenical Church Congress in Munich, May 2010
• 2012 Question and Answer Live performance of the entire oratorio trilogy in the Rosengarten, Mannheim
• 2015 So Here I Am , motto song for the international altar boy pilgrimage to Rome 2015
• 2016 Psalm 2016 , world premiere on May 26, 2016 in the Leipzig Opera

Web links

• Works by and about Gregor Linßen in the catalog of the German National Library
• EditionGL Gregor Linßen