Tributes to former Birmingham Bach Choir conductor Richard Butt

BIRMINGHAM, UK — Moving tributes have been paid to a long-serving conductor of the Birmingham Bach Choir, who has died.

Richard Butt, aged 82, was in charge of the organisation between 1966 and 1992 while also working as a producer for BBC Radio 3 at the former Pebble Mill site.

The much-loved figure was a devotee of the 17th century German composer, writing a catalogue of Bach’s cantatas which is still used by budding musicians today.

He died of cancer at the Marie Curie Hospice in Solihull on Tuesday.