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(Seven Fold Amen)
Peter Christian
Lutkin
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lyrics
The Lord
bless you and keep you.
The Lord lift his countenance upon you,
and give you peace,
and give you peace.
The Lord make his face to shine upon you,
and be gracious,
and be gracious;
the Lord be gracious, gracious unto you.
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen,
Amen, Amen, Amen. 
Peter Christian
Lutkin (March 27,
1858 – December 27, 1931) was an American organist, choral
conductor, and composer.
Peter Lutkin was born in Thompsonville,
Wisconsin. His parents, Peter Christian and Hannah (Olivarius)
Lutkin, emigrated to the U.S. from Denmark in 1844. He attended Chicago
public schools and was a chorister and organist at St. Peter and St. Paul's
Episcopal Church. At age thirteen he began formal music training, studying
organ with Clarence Eddy, piano with Regina Watson, and theory with Frederick Grant
Gleason.
At age twenty-one, he became a piano
instructor in the Conservatory of
Music at Northwestern University. In 1881 he traveled to Berlin to
study with Oscar Ralf (1881–1964) (sv), rl August Haupt]] (1810–1891), and Woldemar Bargiel (1828–1897). After a
year he was admitted to the Royal School
of Art in Berlin. He returned to Chicago to serve as organist and
choirmaster, first at St. Clement's Protestant Episcopal Church and later
at St. James
Episcopal Church. He also served a three-year appointment on the
faculty of the American
Conservatory of Music in Chicago. He was a widely respected
organist and helped found the American Guild
of Organists in 1896. He married, on October 27, 1885, Nancy
Lelah Carmen (1861–1949).
In 1891, he returned to Northwestern
University, where he contributed to significant improvements in the
Conservatory of Music. In 1892, the Conservatory became a department in the
College of Liberal Arts. In 1895, a separate School of Music was
formed and Lutkin was appointed its first dean. He remained in that position
until he was named Dean Emeritus in 1928. While at Northwestern, he founded the
Women's Cecilian Choir, the Men's Glee Club, and the A Cappella Choir (1906),
the first a cappella choir in the U.S. The group was organized to illustrate a
university lecture on the music of Renaissance composers. Shortly thereafter,
F. Melius Christiansen established the St. Olaf Choir (1912), and John Finley
Williamson organized the Westminster Choir (1920). By the middle of the 1930s,
a cappella choirs had become a staple in choral programs in high schools,
colleges, and universities across the U.S. Lutkin's Northwestern A Cappella
Choir was widely recognized for its pure tone and exceptional balance—a result
achieved by using no accompaniment, even during rehearsals.
Lutkin became a national spokesperson
for a cappella singing. He appeared on programs of the Music Teachers National
Association in 1909 (when his choir performed), 1916, 1917, 1923 and 1928. He
directed the Music Supervisors Chorus of five hundred voices at their national
convention in 1920, and the Northwestern University Choir sang for the Music
Supervisors Convention in Chicago in 1928. In most of these appearances, he
focused on the merits of unaccompanied singing and a cappella choral
repertoire.
In 1918, the honor society Pi Kappa Lambda (ΠΚΛ) was established at
Northwestern University, and the Greek letters chosen were based on Lutkin's
name.
As a composer, Lutkin specialized in
writing unaccompanied choral music, primarily for his own choir. He wrote at
least thirty hymn tunes, numerous songs for children, and sixty-five choral
anthems, some of which remain in print today. He co-edited a Methodist hymnal
and was musical editor of the Methodist Sunday-School Hymnal. Generations of
choristers likely were first introduced to his choral music through his
benediction setting, The Lord Bless You and Keep You, with its
famous concluding sevenfold amen.
In addition to his position as Dean
and Director of Choirs at Northwestern University, he also served as Professor
of Theory, Piano, Organ, and Composition in the School of Music, 1895-1931;
Director of the School's Department of Church and Choral Music, 1926–28; and
Lecturer in Church Music at Seabury-Western
Theological Seminary. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in music
from Syracuse University.
He wrote several books including a history of the Northwestern School of Music.
Lutkin died on December 27, 1931,
in Evanston, Illinois,
after suffering a heart attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_C._Lutkin
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