Juan Alais Moncada was born in Buenos Aires in 1844. He began to play guitar after first hearing his brother Guillermo play. Upon returning from a long voyage Guillermo heard Juan play better than he, and never played in Juan’s presence again. At the age of 11 Juan began to play in public and was thought to without the need of a teacher. By 1870 “Juan el Ingles” as he was known, was a professor of guitar. His earliest pieces were published by Carlos Schnockel in the 1870’s, and later by Francisco Nuñez. Juan wrote and published 87 pieces. In 1910 he suffered a stroke, and was paralized until he died in 1914.
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