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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
for SATB and piano

Bring festive sparkle and infectious joy to your Christmas concerts with the delightful "Shepherd's Pipe Carol", published by Oxford University Press. This exhilarating arrangement for mixed choir (SA...

Bring festive sparkle and infectious joy to your Christmas concerts with the delightful "Shepherd's Pipe Carol", published by Oxford University Press. This exhilarating arrangement for mixed choir (SA...

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Bring festive joy and holiday sparkle to your choral programme with the traditional English carol "I saw three ships". In this spirited arrangement for mixed choir (SATB) and piano, this beloved class...

Bring festive joy and holiday sparkle to your choral programme with the traditional English carol "I saw three ships". In this spirited arrangement for mixed choir (SATB) and piano, this beloved class...

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John Rutter
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Bring infectious energy and an irresistible Dixieland groove to your choir's stage! This brilliant arrangement of the world-famous classic "When The Saints Go Marching In", published by Oxford Univers...

Bring infectious energy and an irresistible Dixieland groove to your choir's stage! This brilliant arrangement of the world-famous classic "When The Saints Go Marching In", published by Oxford Univers...

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John Rutter
for SATB (with divisions) and piano

This setting of a song from Act II of Shakespeare's As You Like It was originally published as part of John Rutter's When Icicles Hang. This set contains: 1 x fl 1, 1 x fl 2, 1 x hp, 1 x hpschd, 4 x v...

This setting of a song from Act II of Shakespeare's As You Like It was originally published as part of John Rutter's When Icicles Hang. This set contains: 1 x fl 1, 1 x fl 2, 1 x hp, 1 x hpschd, 4 x v...

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John Rutter
for SATB and piano or chamber ensemble

With "Mary's Lullaby", published by the renowned Oxford University Press, bring a heartwarming and contemplative atmosphere to your choral performance. This enchanting piece captures the intimate mome...

With "Mary's Lullaby", published by the renowned Oxford University Press, bring a heartwarming and contemplative atmosphere to your choral performance. This enchanting piece captures the intimate mome...

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John Rutter
for SATB and small orchestra or piano

This characterful trio of Shakespeare settings draws together popular texts from Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and the sonnets into a charming and playful concert work for mixed choir and sma...

This characterful trio of Shakespeare settings draws together popular texts from Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and the sonnets into a charming and playful concert work for mixed choir and sma...

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John Rutter
for SA and piano or orchestra

Chilcott's four-movement setting of the Latin Gloria will be welcomed by choirs looking for an uplifting and jubilant concert work. It features a driving 'Gloria', a tender yet majestic 'Domine Deus',...

Chilcott's four-movement setting of the Latin Gloria will be welcomed by choirs looking for an uplifting and jubilant concert work. It features a driving 'Gloria', a tender yet majestic 'Domine Deus',...

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John Rutter
from The Wind in the Willows

The finale from The Wind in the Willows is now available in this arrangement for separate performance for SATB choir and piano or orchestra. Orchestral material is available on hire.

The finale from The Wind in the Willows is now available in this arrangement for separate performance for SATB choir and piano or orchestra. Orchestral material is available on hire.

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John Rutter
for SATB and organ or strings or chamber orchestra

Composed during the early 1700s, this was to become one of the most frequently performed choral works of the eighteenth century. Robert King has consulted eighteenth-century sources to prepare this ed...

Composed during the early 1700s, this was to become one of the most frequently performed choral works of the eighteenth century. Robert King has consulted eighteenth-century sources to prepare this ed...

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John Rutter
for SATB and organ

This is a slow, meditative piece based on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons, setting a text from an early seventeenth-century poem by George Herbert. Simple, homophonic vocal lines are intertwined with a del...

This is a slow, meditative piece based on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons, setting a text from an early seventeenth-century poem by George Herbert. Simple, homophonic vocal lines are intertwined with a del...

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John Rutter
for SATB and organ

This is a slow, meditative piece based on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons, setting a text from an early seventeenth-century poem by George Herbert. Simple, homophonic vocal lines are intertwined with a del...

This is a slow, meditative piece based on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons, setting a text from an early seventeenth-century poem by George Herbert. Simple, homophonic vocal lines are intertwined with a del...

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John Rutter
(Christ The Lord Is Risen Again)

John Rutter's Kristus Stod Af Graven Op (Christ The Lord Is Risen Again) for SATB and Organ. This piece incorporates words by Michael Weisse with a Danish translation by Johannes Johansen.

John Rutter's Kristus Stod Af Graven Op (Christ The Lord Is Risen Again) for SATB and Organ. This piece incorporates words by Michael Weisse with a Danish translation by Johannes Johansen.

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Festival hymn with introductory fanfare for SATB, brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 2 trombones or 2 horns, bass trombone and optional tuba), timpani, percussion and organ. An alternative orchestral accompa...

Festival hymn with introductory fanfare for SATB, brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 2 trombones or 2 horns, bass trombone and optional tuba), timpani, percussion and organ. An alternative orchestral accompa...

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John Rutter
for SATB, two keyboards, and percussion

A rousing setting of the classic American song. Two pianos, piano and organ, piano and synthesiser or two synthesisers may be used for the two keyboard accompaniment. The orchestral/concert band accom...

A rousing setting of the classic American song. Two pianos, piano and organ, piano and synthesiser or two synthesisers may be used for the two keyboard accompaniment. The orchestral/concert band accom...

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John Rutter
for solo piano

A piano transcription, made by the composer himself, of 'A flower remembered', originally written in memory of the victims of the Tohoku area earthquake and tsunami, March 2011. Suitable for pianists...

A piano transcription, made by the composer himself, of 'A flower remembered', originally written in memory of the victims of the Tohoku area earthquake and tsunami, March 2011. Suitable for pianists...

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John Rutter
for SATB and three-piece ensemble (oboe, harp, organ)

Experience a deeply moving and evocative setting of the beloved 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my shepherd", published by the renowned Oxford University Press. This atmospheric work blends the rich sound of...

Experience a deeply moving and evocative setting of the beloved 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my shepherd", published by the renowned Oxford University Press. This atmospheric work blends the rich sound of...

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John Rutter
for SATB and small orchestra

Bird Songs is a playful and uplifting four-movement work for SATB choir and small orchestra centred around bird-themed texts. Scores and instrumental parts are available on rental.

Bird Songs is a playful and uplifting four-movement work for SATB choir and small orchestra centred around bird-themed texts. Scores and instrumental parts are available on rental.

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John Rutter
for SATB unaccompanied

This poignant memorial anthem pairs the composer's English translation of the Requiem's 'In paradisum' with a profoundly beautiful melody and quietly expressive harmonies. The largely homophonic textu...

This poignant memorial anthem pairs the composer's English translation of the Requiem's 'In paradisum' with a profoundly beautiful melody and quietly expressive harmonies. The largely homophonic textu...

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John Rutter
for SATB, flute, and guitar (or piano with optional flute)

Merulo's setting of Dum illucescente, a text for the Feast of St Mark the Evangelist, is scored with high clefs. The motet is framed by two polyphonic sections that incorporate some melismatic vocal l...

Merulo's setting of Dum illucescente, a text for the Feast of St Mark the Evangelist, is scored with high clefs. The motet is framed by two polyphonic sections that incorporate some melismatic vocal l...

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Gabriel Fauré, John Rutter
(1893 version) for soprano and baritone soloists, SATB chorus, and the composer's original chamber instrumentation

Experience a timeless choral masterpiece in its purest and most intimate form: This edition from Oxford University Press presents the celebrated Requiem in the esteemed 1893 version for soprano and ba...

Experience a timeless choral masterpiece in its purest and most intimate form: This edition from Oxford University Press presents the celebrated Requiem in the esteemed 1893 version for soprano and ba...

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John Rutter
from The Reluctant Dragon for SATB and piano or orchestra

With "Let's Begin Again", John Rutter presents a touching choral work full of warmth, hope, and optimism. Serving as the brilliant finale to his beloved musical fable "The Reluctant Dragon", this piec...

With "Let's Begin Again", John Rutter presents a touching choral work full of warmth, hope, and optimism. Serving as the brilliant finale to his beloved musical fable "The Reluctant Dragon", this piec...

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John Rutter
for SSA unaccompanied

God Be In My Head is a deeply moving choral work that enchants with its poignant simplicity and spiritual depth. In this delicate arrangement published by Oxford University Press, the traditional pray...

God Be In My Head is a deeply moving choral work that enchants with its poignant simplicity and spiritual depth. In this delicate arrangement published by Oxford University Press, the traditional pray...

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Bring festive magic to your repertoire with the beloved Christmas classic 'Away in a Manger'. Published by the renowned Oxford University Press, this timeless setting for mixed choir (SATB) touches th...

Bring festive magic to your repertoire with the beloved Christmas classic 'Away in a Manger'. Published by the renowned Oxford University Press, this timeless setting for mixed choir (SATB) touches th...

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John Rutter
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This arrangement of Gruber's timeless carol is warm and gentle. It was recorded by the Cambridge Singers on the The John Rutter Christmas Album (Collegium Records CSCD510). Conductor's scores and inst...

This arrangement of Gruber's timeless carol is warm and gentle. It was recorded by the Cambridge Singers on the The John Rutter Christmas Album (Collegium Records CSCD510). Conductor's scores and inst...

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John Rutter
for SATB unaccompanied

With "A Prayer of Saint Patrick", John Rutter has created a deeply moving and eloquent benediction for four-part mixed choir (SATB unaccompanied). The work sets the touching, deeply spiritual 5th-cent...

With "A Prayer of Saint Patrick", John Rutter has created a deeply moving and eloquent benediction for four-part mixed choir (SATB unaccompanied). The work sets the touching, deeply spiritual 5th-cent...

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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” .