Arthur Chanter

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Arthur Chanter

| image = Arthur_Chanter.png

| alt = Portrait of Arthur Chanter

| caption = Arthur Chanter 1910

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1866|01|01}}

| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|11|29|1866|01|01}}

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| occupation = Composer, conductor, teacher

| years_active = 1889–1950

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Arthur Maybee Chanter (1866-1950) was an Australian composer, conductor, music teacher,{{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}}{{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}} choir master and musician. An accomplished pianist{{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}} and watercolorist,{{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}} Chanter was among the earliest music graduates of the University of Melbourne,{{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}}{{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}} where he was instructed by George Marshall-Hall. In 1910 Chanter was the adjudicator of a musical Eistedfodd and band competition of an association of native-born Australians in Western Australia.{{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}} He married Josephine in 1902 but divorced her in 1914,{{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}} taking another wife Sara Kate Campbell in 1915.{{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}} He live mostly in Brighton, Victoria and Elsternwick, but was well travelled.{{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}}{{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}} He advocated recording as a means to reach the working clubs and masses{{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}} and was damning of the teaching methods in public schools.{{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}} He retired to Euroa and died 28 November 1950,{{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}} and is buried in Cheltenhan pioneer cemetery.