{{Short description|American composer and conductor}} {{About|the American composer and conductor|the English archdeacon|Arthur Shepherd (priest)|the British politician|Arthur Shepherd (politician)|a ''Desperate Housewives'' character|Art Shepherd}} {{Infobox person | name = Arthur Shepherd | image = Arthur Shepherd 001.JPG | caption = Burr McIntosh Monthly, September, 1908 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date |1880|2|19|mf=y}} | birth_place = Paris, Idaho, USA | death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|1|12|1880|2|19|mf=y}} | death_place = Cleveland, Ohio, USA | other_names = | occupation = Composer, Orchestra Conductor and Professor of Music | spouse = }}
'''Arthur Shepherd''' (February 19, 1880 – January 12, 1958) was an American composer and conductor in the 20th century.
==Life and career== Shepherd was born in Paris, Idaho, into a Mormon family. His family loved to sing and his father, William N. B. Shepherd, wrote the hymn “Give Us Room That We May Dwell.”<ref name="MAC">Mormon Arts Center Newsletter, May 2017. Accessed May 22, 2017.</ref> Shepherd performed with both the Paris Brass Band and the Bear Lake Stake Choir.<ref name="MAC" />
Shepherd entered the New England Conservatory when he was only twelve years old. After graduating with honors and as president of his class,<ref name="MAC" /> Shepherd returned to his family who had moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, and led a local orchestra for six years.<ref name="MAC" /> In 1901, he married Hattie Hooper Jennings.<ref name="MAC" />
After some encouragement, he returned to the east and took a teaching position at the New England Conservatory where he studied under Charles F. Dennée, Percy Goetschius, Carl Faelten, and George W. Chadwick.<ref name="MAC" /> He briefly served as a bandmaster during World War I. His marriage fell apart after his return from Europe<ref name="MAC" /> and he moved with his children to Cleveland, Ohio. He took a job as the assistant director of the Cleveland Orchestra.
In 1922 he married Grazella Shepherd.<ref name="MAC" />
In 1927 he returned to teaching at the Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He retired in 1950 and died in 1958, after a failed operation at a Cleveland hospital.<ref>DR. ARTHUR SHEPHERD New York Times; January 14, 1958; pg. 30</ref> He composed over 100 works, including symphonies, string quartets and songs.<ref>[http://www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80327.pdf 80327<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202061405/http://www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80327.pdf |date=December 2, 2008 }}</ref>
Shepherd was a Latter-day Saint.<ref>[http://www.ldsfilm.com/ar/lds_composers_catalog.html Musical Compositions by LDS Composers in NYC Collections<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Although around the time of World War I, his divorce and remarriage, he distanced himself from the faith, he maintained a faith in God and his connections to the church and his people.<ref name="MAC" /> His work made reference to the geography and music of the Latter-day Saints.<ref name="MAC" />
==Awards== {{Incomplete list|date=May 2017}} * '''1905''' Paderewski Prize for ''Overture Joyeuse'' (orchestral work performed by the New York Symphony conducted by Walter Damrosch * '''1909''' First prize in the National Federal of Music Clubs for ''Sonata for the Pianoforte''
==Works== {{Incomplete list|date=May 2017}} * 1904 ''Capriccio'' (for piano) * 1904 ''Etude'' (for piano) * 1905 ''Overture Joyeuse'' * 1907 ''The Lord Hath Brought Again Zion'' (choral work with text from Doctrine and Covenants) * 1909 ''Five Songs on Poems by James Russell Lowell'' * 1909 ''Sonata for the Pianoforte'' * 1913 '' The City in the Sea'' (cantata) * 1927 ''Horizons'' (symphony)
==Influences== His influences include Percy Goetschius and George W. Chadwick, Arthur Farwell, French Impressionists and Englishman, Vaughan Williams.
==Selected works== * Ouverture Joyeuse * Horizons * Triptych * Piano Quintet * Matin Song * He Came All So Still * The Lost Child * Nocturn * Solitude * Where Loveliness Keeps House * Two-Step * Exotic Dance No. 1 * From a Mountain lake * Gigue Fantasque <ref>[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/may00/shepherd.htm ARTHUR SHEPHERD selected works: Classical CD Reviews-May 2000 Music on the Web(UK)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} * [http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv83264/ Arthur Shepherd Biography at the University of Utah Marriott Library of Special Collections] * [http://www.answers.com/topic/arthur-shepherd-classical-musician?cat=technology Arthur Shepherd Biography from Allmusic] * [http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=SA2 Encyclopedia of Cleveland article on Arthur Shepherd] * {{IMSLP|id=Shepherd, Arthur}} * {{Find a Grave|1694}}
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