Ernest Shand (1868 - 1924) was a Victorian guitarist and composer.
His compositions impressed Sidney Pratten in 1888. She said she had nothing to teach him, and that his pieces were superior to hers.[1] His playing remained unsurpassed until the emergence of Julian Bream in the late 1940’s. As a composer, Shand was able to sustain its growth against the popularity of large orchestras by writing music that brought guitar composition to a more modern approach.[2] Shand produced a pot-pourri of music, salon pieces, dances, variations, fantasias, sonatas, a guitar concerto, duets, music for voice and guitar, voice and piano, piano pieces, transcriptions and pedagogical works. All of these compositions are filled with unbridled individualism; lyrical pieces that are peppered with the suggestion of song.