Horst Christill (born 1959) is a German church musician and composer of sacred music, especially hymns of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL).
Born in Annweiler am Trifels, Christill first studied from 1976 music pedagogy, focused on piano, at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken, completing with the concert exam in 1983.
He then studied Catholic church music at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, completing with the A exam in 1988.
[1] He was church musician in Dornburg-Frickhofen, working also as Bezirkskantor [de] for the district within the Diocese of Limburg.
From 2019, Christill has worked at the Marienkirche [de] in Landau, also as Dekanatskantor and responsible for Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL) in the Diocese of Speyer.