{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Arthur Chanter | image = Arthur_Chanter.png | alt = Portrait of Arthur Chanter | caption = Arthur Chanter 1910 | image_size = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1866|01|01}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|11|29|1866|01|01}} | instrument = | genre = | occupation = Composer, conductor, teacher | years_active = 1889–1950 }}
'''Arthur Maybee Chanter''' (1866-1950) was an Australian composer, conductor, music teacher,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51622793 |title=PERSONAL |newspaper=The Examiner (Tasmania) |volume=LXXXVII |issue=232 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=1 October 1929 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=6 (DAILY) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189414993 |title=MR. ARTHUR CHANTER'S CONCERT. |newspaper=The Age |issue=18,484 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=17 June 1914 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> choir master and musician. An accomplished pianist<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article180534087 |title=Through the Grand Hotel. |newspaper=Melbourne Punch |location=Victoria, Australia |date=5 October 1899 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and watercolorist,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203255814 |title=WATER COLORS AT THE LITTLE GALLERY. |newspaper=The Age |issue=23,281 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=19 November 1929 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Chanter was among the earliest music graduates of the University of Melbourne,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171429570 |title=PROSE ABOUT PRO.'S. |newspaper=Free Lance |volume=1 |issue=11 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=2 July 1896 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name="bachelor">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73251678 |title=VICTORIA'S FIRST BACHELOR OF MUSIC. |newspaper=Independent |issue=907 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=25 August 1900 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> where he was instructed by George Marshall-Hall.<ref name="bachelor" /> In 1910 Chanter was the adjudicator of a musical Eistedfodd and band competition of an association of native-born Australians in Western Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33371312 |title=THE KALGOORLIE BAND COMPETITIONS |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Western Argus |volume=XVI |issue=829 |location=Western Australia |date=27 September 1910 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=22 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He married Josephine in 1902 but divorced her in 1914,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10817374 |title=DIVORCE COURT. |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=21,312 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=14 November 1914 |accessdate=28 November 2021 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> taking another wife Sara Kate Campbell in 1915.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138698637 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=Punch |volume=CXXII |issue=3115 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=8 April 1915 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=27 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He live mostly in Brighton, Victoria and Elsternwick, but was well travelled.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article153425508 |title=VICTORIA COLLEGE OF MUSIC (LONDON). |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |volume=XLVII |issue=254 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=28 October 1927 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57294536 |title=ADELAIDE COMPETITIONS. |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |volume=XC |issue=26,382 |location=South Australia |date=17 July 1925 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He advocated recording as a means to reach the working clubs and masses<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11982678 |title=NEGLECTED COMPOSITIONS |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=29,900 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=24 June 1942 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and was damning of the teaching methods in public schools.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195400983 |title=CHILDREN'S VOICES |newspaper=Daily Examiner |volume=17 |issue=2538 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=20 August 1925 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He retired to Euroa and died 28 November 1950,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23023871 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=32,525 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=29 November 1950 |accessdate=13 March 2024 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and is buried in Cheltenhan pioneer cemetery.
==Works== {{listen|filename=A Christmas Hymn.ogg|title=A Christmas Hymn 1915 setting of Joseph Furphy|description=}} * 1898 ''The Vintner's Daughter'' or ''The Vintner of Wurgburg'', an opera in four acts<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242092896 |title=New Comic Opera |newspaper=The Herald |issue=10,814 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=27 June 1910 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255869709 |title=New Opera by Australian Author. |newspaper=Richmond Guardian |issue=1804 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=3 December 1910 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241487706 |title=Vintner of Wuerzburg. |newspaper=The Herald |issue=11,384 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=30 April 1912 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> * 1900 Chaucer Songs * 1901 Saltwater Jack * 1910 Valse triste : pianoforte solo * 1911 ''A Daughter of Italy'', an opera<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196203747 |title=MR. [?]ANTER'S STUDENTS IN OPERA. |newspaper=The Age |issue=17,510 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=1 May 1911 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> * 1912 Snow clouds : song for soprano with lyrics by Catherine Cue-Campbell * 1913 Australians all : national song and anthem / words by William Carrington * 1914 Australia my beloved land<ref>{{Cite web |title=Australia my beloved land [music] : national song |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-177105165/view |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=Trove |language=en}}</ref> * 1915 Christmas hymn * 1930 ''Sorrento'' : one act comic opera * 1930 Sun of my soul : hymn anthem * There's a woman like a dewdrop : serenade from Browning's * The buccaneer for bass voice * O worship the Lord for choir * The bountiful harvest * Take, Oh Take those lips away (from ''Measure for Measure'' by Shakespeare)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106851377 |title=New Songs. |newspaper=North Melbourne Gazette |volume=III |issue=52 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=28 May 1897 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
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