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Ernest Shand
Ernest Shand (31 January 1868 – 28 November 1924) was an English performer and composer for the classical guitar, and a music-hall singer and actor.
==Biography==
Born as Ernest William Watson in Hull, Yorkshire, Shand was born into a musical family, his mother having been a piano teacher, his father a music dealer, and his brother an actor.〔Stanley Yates, preface to his edition of ''23 Guitar Solos ...'' (2000); see 'Modern editions', p. 3.〕 He began his musical education on the violin. He came to the guitar when he discovered a composition for guitar by the Spanish composer Dionysio Aguado. Viewing it as a challenge, he bought a guitar and practised until he could play it.〔Liner notes to CD ''Ernest Shand. Guitar Music and Songs'' (1996), see 'Recordings'.〕 He then became a pupil of Madame Sidney Pratten (1821–1895) who provided him with scores and became the first publisher of his compositions. These apparently impressed her so much that by 1888 she apparently had nothing more to teach him, and that his pieces were superior to hers.〔S.W. Button (1989), p. 157; see Bibliography.〕 Before the age of 30, Shand had already written more than 150 pieces for solo guitar, a guitar concerto (the first from the British Isles) and a tutor (1896). In the United Kingdom, his playing remained unsurpassed until the emergence of Julian Bream in the late 1940s.〔See http://www.editionsorphee.com/shand/shand.htm.〕
Despite his success as a composer and performer, the guitar was a relatively small niche in England. Shand made his living mainly from acting in music halls, and only late in life was persuaded by his wife and friends to take up the guitar professionally. Even then he had to return to acting after he had lost money in a studio and advertising business.〔Blog by Gerald Garcia: http://www.geraldgarcia.com/wordpress/?page_id=884〕 As an actor, he travelled as far as Australia, where he also gave guitar recitals. Shand moved to London in 1896, where he was elected to the Senate of the London Guild of Violinists and gave a well-received series of performances at the Royal College of Music. During one of his tours, he was apparently attacked by an aggrieved Russian and sustained severe injuries that affected him for the rest of his life.〔Gerald Garcia, as above.〕
Shand published his last music around 1910, after which he moved to Mosley, Birmingham. At the outbreak of World War I, he entertained British troops on the guitar. He died in Birmingham.
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