Hans Florence

Hans Florenz (* 1953 in Bensberg ) is a German composer and lyricist for New Spiritual Songs .

biography

Hans Florenz lives in Cologne and is a full-time teacher of French, economics and mathematics.

After training on the classical guitar , he has acquired his musical knowledge autodidactically since 1970 as a band leader and choir director . In the 1970s and 1980s, Florenz worked in the Sacré-Cœur in Paris in the field of youth work and the musical design of church services. He still has good contacts in France today, especially with Michel Wackenheim , whose song When we share life he wrote the German translation.

Since 2013 Hans Florenz has been a member of the ecumenical association inTAKT eV for the promotion of the new spiritual song, art, culture and education. Hans Florenz writes and composes new songs for the association.

Works

• Our hope overcomes black fear (Text: Alois Albrecht )
• 5-part sanctuary canon
• The time is there for a no or yes
• When the sky falls in our night
• When the night overshadows me
• We ask what God promises

Publications

• Double CD That Future Survives (1985)
• CD Transformed Time (1998)
• CD When the sky falls in our night (1998)
• CD When We Share Life (2004)
• CD We are invited to the festival (2004)
• CD Because We Met (2004)

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Florenz in the catalog of the German National Library