John Troutbeck

John Troutbeck (12 November 1832, Blencowe, Cumberland – 11 October 1899, London) was a Minor Canon of Westminster Abbey and Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria whose renown rests on his translation of various continental choral texts including the major works of Bach. He additionally translated oratorios by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák, Gounod, Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Schumann and Weber, as well as operas by Mozart, Gluck and Wagner. Troutbeck was born at Blencowe, Cumberland, in England, on 12 November 1832, and died on 11 October 1899, at Westminster, London. He is interred in the cloisters in Westminster Abbey.

Troutbeck had a plaque erected in the Troutbeck Chapel at St Mary’s on the Hill, Chester, acknowledging ancestors buried there, inter alia Sir William Troutbeck, Chamberlain of Chester. The Troutbeck Chapel had been built in 1443, rebuilt in 1683, with a stipend provided for a chantry priest.

John Troutbeck was the son of George Troutbeck of Dacre, Cumberland. He was educated at Rugby and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1856, a Master of Arts in 1858, and was awarded a Doctorate in Divinity in 1883.

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