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Peter Janssens (17 June 1934 – 24 December 1998) was a German musician and composer who wrote and performed incidental music for several theatres, and songs and musicals of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied, a pioneer of Sacropop [de]. He worked at a German theatre in Buenos Aires, set several works by Ernesto Cardenal to music and composed in 1992 a passion music, in memory of 500 years after the European invasion in Latin America.

Peter Janssens
Born(1934-06-17)17 June 1934
Telgte
Died24 December 1998(1998-12-24) (aged 64)
Telgte
EducationMusikhochschule Köln
Occupation
  • Musician
  • Composer
  • Academic teacher
Organization
  • Bad Hersfelder Festspiele
  • Folkwangschule
  • Kirchentag
  • TAKT
Awards
  • Hersfeld-Preis
  • Peter-Janssens-Weg in Telgte

Biography


Born in Telgte, Peter Janssens was the last of nine children and grew up in rural surroundings. He attended the gymnasium Paulinum in Münster.[1] Janssens studied musicology, sociology and history at the Musikhochschule Köln, graduating as a music educator in 1958.[2] He continued his studies from 1961 to 1964 at the University of Münster.[2] He worked as répétiteur at the Theater Münster. From 1966, he composed incidental music for the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen, Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Staatstheater Darmstadt, among others. He was active at the Bad Hersfelder Festspiele, both in the direction and in performing his own pieces,[1] In 1964/65, he was director of music, composer, pianist and actor at the Deutsche Kammerspiele in Buenos Aires. From 1966, he lectured on song and chanson at the Folkwangschule.[2]

From 1962, Janssens composed religious songs of the genre later called Neues Geistliches Lied, beat masses and later musicals.[1] He wrote numerous songs, children's songs such as "Herr Uklatsch", and musicals such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer – ein Leben im Widerstand (Dietrich Bonhoeffer – A Life in Resistance). He set music to texts by authors such as Alois Albrecht [de], Friedrich Karl Barth [de], Ernesto Cardenal, Jürgen Fliege [de], Rolf Krenzer [de] and Wilhelm Willms [de]. He introduced the term "Sacropop [de]" to Germany, when in 1972 he subtitled his Menschensohn (Son of Man) Ein Sacro-Pop-Musical (A sacropop musical).[3] From 1973, Janssens performed with his musical ensemble Gesangsorchester at the Kirchentag, first in Düsseldorf.[2] In 1992, he wrote Passion der Eingeborenen (Passion of the Indigenous), related to 500 years after the European invasion in Latin America.[1] He was a member of the association which is now the Textautoren- und Komponistengruppe (TAKT).

Janssens died in Telgte. His home town named a road after him on 17 June 2004, which would have been his 70th birthday.[4]


Awards



Works


The German National Library holds 138 of his compositions,[6] such as:


Filmography



Literature



References


  1. Trautwein, Dieter (2001). Herbst, Wolfgang (ed.). Wer ist wer im Gesangbuch? (in German). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 166–167. ISBN 9783525503232.
  2. "Peter (Piet) Janssens" (in German). Diocese of Cologne. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  3. Frank, René (2003). Das Neue Geistliche Lied. Das Neue Geistliche Lied – Neue Impulse für die Kirchenmusik (in German). Marburg: Tectum. p. 61. ISBN 9783828885738. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  4. "Peter-Janssens-Weg" (in German). Peter Janssens Musik Verlag. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  5. "Hersfeld-Preis und Großer Hersfeld-Preis" (in German). Freunde der Stiftsruine. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  6. "Kompositionen" (in German). German National Library. Retrieved 18 January 2017.



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[de] Peter Janssens

Peter „Piet“ Janssens (* 17. Juni 1934 in Telgte bei Münster; † 24. Dezember 1998 ebenda) war ein deutscher Musiker, Komponist und Mitbegründer des Sacro Pop.
- [en] Peter Janssens


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