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John Rutter Sheet Music for Choir and Instruments

"Look at the World" is what John Rutter tells us in one of his works. And he shows us how it works and what we then get to see.Experience John Rutter's musical perspective on our world for yourself with sheet music of his choral music from our all-sheetmusic.com web shop. Arrangements of Rutter's compositions for piano or wind band as well as sheet music of his instrumental works are also available from us!We'll deliver your John Rutter sheet music to your home - wherever you live.
John Rutter
(Choral Cycle) For Upper Voices

Accompaniments are for piano or chamber ensemble (using one player per string part) or chamber orchestra Instrumental material is available on hire.

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John Rutter
for SA (with divisi) and piano

No.1 of Three Birthday Madrigals for upper voices. SA version.

No.1 of Three Birthday Madrigals for upper voices. SA version.

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John Rutter
Gesänge zum Gottesdienst

einstimmiger Chor (gemischter Chor SATB ad lib.), Orgel - Partitur

einstimmiger Chor (gemischter Chor SATB ad lib.), Orgel - Partitur

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for unison voices and organ with optional SATB choir

for unison voices and organ with optional SATB choir

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John Rutter
for SATB and organ

This moving and prayerful arrangement of the well-known traditional song was written in memory of Nelson Mandela. Rutter treats the melody in simple yet varied ways, with a mixture of unison and four-...

This moving and prayerful arrangement of the well-known traditional song was written in memory of Nelson Mandela. Rutter treats the melody in simple yet varied ways, with a mixture of unison and four-...

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John Rutter
for SATB with orchestra (or piano)

One Voice was written for performance by massed choirs and orchestra at the opening ceremony of the World Choir Games 2018. The theme of the composer's text is one of unity, and the music is uplifting...

One Voice was written for performance by massed choirs and orchestra at the opening ceremony of the World Choir Games 2018. The theme of the composer's text is one of unity, and the music is uplifting...

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John Rutter
for SATB with orchestra (or piano)

One Voice was written for performance by massed choirs and orchestra at the opening ceremony of the World Choir Games 2018. The theme of the composer's text is one of unity, and the music is uplifting...

One Voice was written for performance by massed choirs and orchestra at the opening ceremony of the World Choir Games 2018. The theme of the composer's text is one of unity, and the music is uplifting...

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John Rutter
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This moving and prayerful arrangement of the well-known traditional song was written in memory of Nelson Mandela. Rutter treats the melody in simple yet varied ways, with a mixture of unison and four-...

This moving and prayerful arrangement of the well-known traditional song was written in memory of Nelson Mandela. Rutter treats the melody in simple yet varied ways, with a mixture of unison and four-...

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Gabriel Fauré
for SATB accompanied by strings and harp, or organ or piano

Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine has all the emotional appeal and refined elegance that one associates with its composer, and has a cherished place in the repertory of both sacred and secular choirs. T...

Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine has all the emotional appeal and refined elegance that one associates with its composer, and has a cherished place in the repertory of both sacred and secular choirs. T...

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For children's unison chorus, with optional SATB, and piano or small orchestra This anthem is a celebration of life. The adult choir is intended as support for the children's voices and is entirely op...

For children's unison chorus, with optional SATB, and piano or small orchestra This anthem is a celebration of life. The adult choir is intended as support for the children's voices and is entirely op...

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John Rutter
(1. Down by The sally gardens; 2. The miller Of Dee)

For men's voices & piano or chamber ensemble or chamber orchestra. Accompaniments are for piano or chamber ensemble (using one player per string part) or chamber orchestra. Instrumental parts are avai...

For men's voices & piano or chamber ensemble or chamber orchestra. Accompaniments are for piano or chamber ensemble (using one player per string part) or chamber orchestra. Instrumental parts are avai...

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Set of parts for John Rutter's enduringly popular setting of William Sharp's uplifting words. Not compatible with the upper-voice or unsion versions.

Set of parts for John Rutter's enduringly popular setting of William Sharp's uplifting words. Not compatible with the upper-voice or unsion versions.

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Georg Friedrich Händel
for soprano solo and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with optional solo trumpet

The work is here arranged for performance by soprano and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with or without solo trumpet, in the slightly lower key of C major. The orchestral score and instrumenta...

The work is here arranged for performance by soprano and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with or without solo trumpet, in the slightly lower key of C major. The orchestral score and instrumenta...

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Georg Friedrich Händel
for soprano solo and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with optional solo trumpet

The work is here arranged for performance by soprano and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with or without solo trumpet, in the slightly lower key of C major. The orchestral score and instrumenta...

The work is here arranged for performance by soprano and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with or without solo trumpet, in the slightly lower key of C major. The orchestral score and instrumenta...

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John Rutter
No. 3 of Three Birthday Madrigals for upper voices

A dancing jazz waltz for SSAA and piano, with a stylish and swinging piano part.

A dancing jazz waltz for SSAA and piano, with a stylish and swinging piano part.

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John Rutter
for soprano and baritone soloists, children's choir, adult choir, and orchestra or chamber ensemble

Salus Aeterna is a bright and mercurial piece that makes full use of the delicious fleeting harmonies and close-written sonoroties of its flowing melodic lines. It sets a Sequence for Advent Sunday th...

Salus Aeterna is a bright and mercurial piece that makes full use of the delicious fleeting harmonies and close-written sonoroties of its flowing melodic lines. It sets a Sequence for Advent Sunday th...

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An easy anthem with words and music by John Rutter. There are three different versions of the vocal parts - unison (or two-part) with keyboard, upper voices with keyboard, or SATB unaccompanied or wit...

An easy anthem with words and music by John Rutter. There are three different versions of the vocal parts - unison (or two-part) with keyboard, upper voices with keyboard, or SATB unaccompanied or wit...

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For TTBB and piano or organ or small orchestra Originally published in versions for SA and SATB voices, this classic Rutter anthem has now been adapted by the composer for performance by male-voice ch...

For TTBB and piano or organ or small orchestra Originally published in versions for SA and SATB voices, this classic Rutter anthem has now been adapted by the composer for performance by male-voice ch...

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For TTBB and piano. This is a poignant setting of the well-known Christian prayer for peace formerly ascribed to St Francis of Assisi. John Rutter perfectly captures the sense of compassion and contra...

For TTBB and piano. This is a poignant setting of the well-known Christian prayer for peace formerly ascribed to St Francis of Assisi. John Rutter perfectly captures the sense of compassion and contra...

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John Rutter
for TTBB and piano or organ or small orchestra

Originally published in versions for SA and SATB voices, this classic Rutter anthem has now been adapted by the composer for performance by male-voice choirs. The flowing choral melodies and the gentl...

Originally published in versions for SA and SATB voices, this classic Rutter anthem has now been adapted by the composer for performance by male-voice choirs. The flowing choral melodies and the gentl...

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John Rutter
for TTBB and piano

Setting a text spoken by Nurse Edith Cavell on the eve of her execution in 1915 and re-fashioned by the poet Seán Street, McDowall has created a work of haunting beauty. It is equally suitable for fun...

Setting a text spoken by Nurse Edith Cavell on the eve of her execution in 1915 and re-fashioned by the poet Seán Street, McDowall has created a work of haunting beauty. It is equally suitable for fun...

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John Rutter
for TTBB unaccompanied

Pulsating rhythms underpin this energetic arrangement of a traditional spiritual. The voice parts progress from a forthright rendition of the famous tune at the beginning to bold and exciting harmonie...

Pulsating rhythms underpin this energetic arrangement of a traditional spiritual. The voice parts progress from a forthright rendition of the famous tune at the beginning to bold and exciting harmonie...

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John Rutter
for TTBB and organ

One of John Rutter's famous carols now arranged for lower voices. In this version, the melody line trades between the tenors and basses, where it is clearly stated when not in the top voice. Also avai...

One of John Rutter's famous carols now arranged for lower voices. In this version, the melody line trades between the tenors and basses, where it is clearly stated when not in the top voice. Also avai...

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John Rutter
for TTBB unaccompanied

Higgins's setting of this popular folk song is simple and wistful, particularly well-suited for children's and youth choirs. With delicate quaver flourishes, the piano accompaniment flows gently along...

Higgins's setting of this popular folk song is simple and wistful, particularly well-suited for children's and youth choirs. With delicate quaver flourishes, the piano accompaniment flows gently along...

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John Rutter
TTBB and organ or piano

This five-movement suite takes a light-hearted journey through different themes of love: Rejection, Parting, Falsehood, Contentment, Fulfilment. With contrasting vocal textures and a range of texts, t...

This five-movement suite takes a light-hearted journey through different themes of love: Rejection, Parting, Falsehood, Contentment, Fulfilment. With contrasting vocal textures and a range of texts, t...

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Full choral sound in good British tradition! Sheet music by John Rutter

John Milford Rutter (born September 24, 1945 in London), John Rutter for short, is one of the best-known contemporary composers of choral music.
While still studying music in Cambridge, Rutter created his first choral works and recorded them with the Clare College Choir under his direction. Among them the popular “Shepherd's Pipe Carol”  (composed at the age of 18) and his “Gloria”  for mixed choir, wind instruments, percussion and organ.
His talent and musical ability earned John Rutter the position of Music Director at Clare College at the age of 30 – this, in turn, helped the college choir to leap onto the international stage under the direction of John Rutter.

After only four years in office, Rutter decided to resign from his post in 1979 and to focus fully on his compositional and artistic work, for example as a producer of recordings of the chamber choir Cambridge Singers, which he had founded (descended from former members of the college choir).

“A ‘contemporary’ Composer: Can Rutter's choral music be heard and sung?” - Yes!

Anyone who thinks of “contemporary” Music that only thinks of strictly serial and discordant compositions does not do justice to this adjective. Since the 1970s, a longing for clear harmonies, melodic structures and interesting (but not too difficult) rhythms has led to the development of a new style of music in choral and church music (but not only!), which has become unwieldy attribute “contemporary” completely new life. And so the music of John Rutter can also be classified under the „Postmodernism” style, which, among other things, is directed against rigid principles and forms of composition. “Anything goes” one could say. Or (intended in a positive way): “What do I care about Adorno's opinion!”

One technique of postmodern music, for example, is to resort to stylistics, elements and structures from other epochs and genres and skillfully develop them with one's own musical ideas into a personal style. This can also be found in the works of John Rutter, which were deliberately created under the influence of traditional English choral and cathedral music, peppered with elements of popular musical forms.
In short: John Rutter's music is rich in full, harmonious sounds and clear melody lines. The arrangements are designed in such a way that even with a small cast a rich radiance is achieved: In the chamber version of his “Magnificat”  In addition to a small mixed choir, a mezzo-soprano or soprano soloist, harp and percussion, there is only one woodwind instrument (brass is replaced by an organ) and a string group 2/2/2/1/1. Watch and listen to the YouTube recording of the Kamerorkest Kamerata Zuid! You will lack for nothing. Here it becomes clear that John Rutter dealt intensively with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach: Little effort with a big effect!

In addition, John Rutter's music exudes positive energy almost throughout. Even his mass “Mass of the Children”   (First performed in New York's Carnegie Hall in 2003), which John Rutter composed on the occasion of his son who died in a traffic accident at the age of 19, carries an unshakable optimism about it.

“Speaking of ‘chamber music’: Is there also instrumental music by John Rutter?”

Yes, there are. Let's stay with the reference to Bach: With his “Suite Antique”  John Rutter unmistakably pays homage to the great Leipzig master and his “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050” - both in the instrumentation and in the structure of the six movements, which are based on the baroque or classical style.

And John Rutter also composed for solo instruments, for example for flute and piano, oboe and piano, Organ solo pieces  or also own transcriptions of his works for piano solo .

You can get an overview of Rutter's instrumental music by opening the complete catalog of sheet music from John Rutter and use our filters “Category” and “Sheet Music for instruments” to limit the list of results according to the instruments offered.

“Great Britain has a proud tradition of concert bands. Is there also something by John Rutter?”

Even if John Rutter himself did not compose for concert band (Rutter's original works are available from the British publisher Oxford University Press), a few publishers and their arrangers have taken his works and published arrangements for concert band.
Sheet music by John Rutter is also available for other types of ensembles. We're happy to help you find it!
You will find sheet music from John Rutter arrangements and John Rutter original compositions for these formations here:

And of course we are also happy to list the extensive choral works by John Rutter for you here. Enrich your concert program with these popular compositions:

You can search specifically for compositions by John Rutter in our web shop,
e.g. in the notation rutter schau auf die welt, to get sheet music editions of the German version of John Rutter's Anthem for children's choir “Look at the World” .