William Shield

About William Shield

William Shield
The violin was Shield's instrument of choice the playing of which he was quite accomplished. At the age of twenty five he was a member of the King's Haymarket Theatre as a member of the violins but became the leader of the violas. It was not until the age of thirty that he began publishing music. Shield composed approximately thirty operas the first of which was a pastiche, "The Flitch of Bacon," 1778. As in all of Shield's operas two thirds of the music was original but at least one third of...
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