Peter Janssens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peter Janssens

German composer

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1934

Place of Birth: Telgte, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Dec-1998

Profession: composer, performing artist, dancer, hymnwriter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.
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.