Hans Waltersdorfer

Hans Waltersdorfer (born August 3, 1962 in Bad Gleichenberg , Styria ) is the Austrian composer of Neuer Geistlicher Lieder.

After graduating from high school in 1980, he entered the Franciscan order . He studied theology in Vienna . In 1989 he resigned from the order and married in 1991. From 1993 to 1997 Waltersdorfer was theological assistant in the House of Silence , then two years pastoral assistant in the Leibnitz parish , since autumn 1999 he has been working again as theological assistant in the House of Silence. Waltersdorfer taught himself to play the guitar from the age of 15 and from 1980 onwards he created numerous New Spiritual Songs .

Works

• Still on the way. Songs of being on the move with God ( song book , self-published, 1999)
• Word on our way. Biblical songs ( song book , self-published, 2003)
• A god with many names. Faith and life songs (song book, self-published, 2010)
• Word on our way. Biblical Songs (CD, 2003)
• Dare to walk. Singing songs while walking and dancing (CD, 2007)
• I go with full confidence. New Spiritual Songs (CD, 2010)
• A god with many names. Faith and Life Songs (CD, 2010)
• You are in the middle. Songs of Faith and Life (CD, 2011)

Known songs

• I go with full confidence (1985)
• Lord bless and keep us (1983)
• Receive the Gifts (1983)
• Gloria we call to you (1981)
• In you alone my soul becomes still (1983)
• Still On The Way (1998)
• God Calm My Inside Out (1998)
• Song without End (Litany of God's Images) (1998)
• Water, Living Water (Christening Song) (1998)
• A god with many names (2009)

Web links

• Hans Waltersdorfer song workshop