John Butt

John Butt is a prominent English keyboard player and conductor who has focused largely on music of the Baroque period. He is also a pedagogue and widely considered an authority on the music of J.S. Bach and its performance, as well as on German Baroque music in general. He has authored several books on these subjects including Bach Interpretation and Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque, both issued by Cambridge University Press. John Butt was born in Solihull, England, in 1960. In 1979 he enrolled at King's College, Cambridge University, where as ...