John Sheppard
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- See also John Sheppard (Stargate) for the fictional character from Stargate Atlantis
John Sheppard (around 1515–1559 or 1560) was an English composer and organist.
He was choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1543–1548, and was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal by no later than 1552.
His works, which are typically richly polyphonic, include motets, two Magnificats, five masses, including one based on the song " The Western Wynde" (also the basis of masses by John Taverner and Christopher Tye), and works in English for Anglican services.