Rutter Requiem vocal score

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John Rutter 

requiem 

Vocal score

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This movement is available as a separate octavo, with the accompaniment arranged for organ. Full scores and instrumental parts (for oboe, harp 

and strings) are available on rental from Oxford University Press. 

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The Requiem is one of John Rutter’s best-loved and most widely performed 

choral works. Setting texts from the Missa pro defunctis, the Book of Common 

Prayer, and the Psalms, the seven sections form an arch-like meditation on the 

themes of life and death: prayers on behalf of all humanity, psalms, personal 

prayers to Christ, and, in the central Sanctus, an affirmation of divine glory. 

The accompaniment is available for either organ and instrumental ensemble 

or small orchestra. 

John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and 

studied music at Clare College, Cambridge. His 

compositions embrace choral, orchestral, and 

instrumental music, and he has edited or co-edited 

various choral anthologies including four Carols for 

Choirs volumes with Sir David Willcocks and the 

Oxford Choral Classics series. From 1975 to 1979 he 

was Director of Music at Clare College, and in 

1981 he formed his own choir, the Cambridge 

Singers. He now divides his time between 

composition and conducting and is sought after as a 

guest conductor for the world’s leading choirs and 

orchestras. John Rutter’s music has been widely recorded and is available on 

many record labels including Universal, Naxos, and Hyperion. The Cambridge 

Singers have recorded many of his works on the Collegium Records label. John 

Rutter was awarded a CBE in the 2007 New Year’s Honours List, in 

recognition of his outstanding services to music. 

‘The most successful and well-known composer of choral music in recent British history’ 

BBC Music Magazine 

Other choral works by John Rutter 

available from Oxford University Press: 

Birthday Madrigals 

Dancing Day 

The Falcon 

Fancies 

Five Childhood Lyrics 

Five Traditional Songs 

Gloria 

Magnificat 

Mass of the Children 

Psalmfest 

The Sprig of Thyme 

When Icicles Hang 

Winchester Te Deum 

For more details about John Rutter and his music, please contact Oxford 

University Press, Music Department. 

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