| | | | 约翰.卢特（John Rutter，1945年9月24日－），是一位英国作曲家及合唱指挥，擅长处理大型圣乐合唱作品，曾编写多首圣乐作品，包括《荣耀颂》(Gloria)、《安魂曲》(Requiem)、《大地好风光》(For the Beauty of the Earth)、《一切美丽光明物》(All Things Bright and Beautiful)等。 | | | 卢特於剑桥Clare College进修音乐，并於1975至1979年期间於该学院任执管风琴学者及音乐主任。他1981年於1981年成立剑桥合唱团 (Cambridge Singers), 於其中担任指挥，并以他旗下的Collegium Records名义制作多首圣乐作品录音。卢特现居英国剑桥，并经常与各地不同合唱团及交响乐团合作。卢特的创作多呈合唱类型，其中包括有赞美诗、圣诞歌及教会礼仪用诗歌。除此以外，他亦有创作非宗教性质的诗歌。卢特亦擅长编曲，以怀古的手法融入音乐中，他的圣乐作品令人感到平静、庄严，却又不会流於陈旧、过时；他亦曾改编多首美国黑人灵歌，以不同的元素融入作品中，不断扩展圣乐合唱的领域，令他成为二十世纪众多音乐家中，在圣乐合唱方面最受重视的一位。 | | | | John Milford Rutter CBE (born September 24, 1945(1945-09-24)) is an English composer, choral conductor, editor, arranger and record producer. | | | | Born in London, he was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He then read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the choir and then director of music from 1975 to 1979. In 1974, Rutter visited the United States at the invitation of choral musician Melvin (Mel) Olson and conducted the premiere of his cantata "Gloria" in Omaha, Nebraska, in the Witherspoon Hall of Joslyn Art Museum. The composition, commissioned by Olson's Voices of Mel Olson chorale, has become a much-performed favorite over the years. (In the same concert, the Young People's Choir of the Midlands performed Rutter's "Eight Childhood Lyrics" in its US premiere performance.) In 1981 he founded his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, which he conducts and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire (including his own works), particularly under his own label Collegium Records. He still lives near Cambridge, but frequently conducts other choirs and orchestras around the world. | | | | In 1980 he was made an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and in 1988 a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music. | | | | He also works as an arranger and editor, most notably (in his youth) of the extraordinarily successful Carols for Choirs anthology series in collaboration with Sir David Willcocks. | | | | ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rutterhttp://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2820/rutt.html |
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