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
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Linßen, Gregor |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Linssen, Gregor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 19th August 1966 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuss |