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Winfred Douglas

1867 - 1944 Person Name: W. Douglas Composer of "[The Lord is my shepherd]" in The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 Charles Winfred Douglas (b. Oswego, NY, 1867; d. Santa Rosa, CA, 1944), an influential leader in Episcopalian liturgical and musical life. Educated at Syracuse University and St. Andrews Divinity School, Syracuse, New York, he moved to Colorado for his health. There he studied at St. Matthew's Hall, Denver, and founded the Mission of the Transfiguration in Evergreen (1897). Ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1899, he also studied in France, Germany and England, where he spent time with the Benedictines of Solesmes on the Island of Wight from 1903 to 1906. For much of his life, Douglas served as director of music at the Community of St. Mary in Peekskill, New York, and had associations with cathedrals in Denver, Colorado, and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He promoted chanting and plainsong in the Episcopal Church through workshops and publications such as The American Psalter (1929), the Plainsong Psalter (1932), and the Monastic Diurnal (1932). His writings include program notes for the Denver Symphony Orchestra, various hymn preludes; organ, as well as the book, Church Music in History and Practice (1937). He was editor of both the Hymnal 1916 and its significant successor, Hymnal 1940, of the Episcopal Church. Douglas's other achievements include a thorough knowledge of the life and culture of Hopi and Navajo natives, among whom he lived for a number of years. Bert Polman

William Hine

1687 - 1730 Person Name: W. Hine Composer of "[The Lord is my shepherd]" in The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940

Thomas Dupuis

1733 - 1796 Person Name: Dupuis Composer of "[The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing]" in The Morning Hour

W. T. Best

1826 - 1897 Composer of "[The Lord is my shepherd]" in The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 William Thomas Best (August 13, 1826 – May 10, 1897), pianist, organist, and teacher; known as the author of a "Modern School" for organ, and by some compositions. A dictionary of musical information: containing also a vocabulary of musical terms, and a list of modern musical works published in the United States from 1640 to 1875 by John Weeks Moore (Boston: Oliver Ditson, c. 1876)