Emanuel Abraham Aguilar Born 23 August 1824 Clapham, London Died 18 February 1904 Marylebone, London
He was the son of a West Indian Jewish family of Spanish extraction. His music studies were in Frankfurt where he also married his wife Sarah and didn't return to England unlil 1849. Most of his career was spent as a pianist and composer.
He had five children*
His sister Grace 1816-1847, is remembered as the first Anglo-Jewish novelist.
Orchestral
Symphony No.1
Symphony No.2
Symphony No.3 1854
Overture
Allegro maestoso for piano and orchestra Op.16 1852
Chamber
'Alpheus' overture for piano and string quartet Op.15
Grand duo, concertante for cello and piano Op.1 pub. by C F Peters
Novellette for violin and piano
Piano
Nocturne Op.3 1848
'Arethuse' melodie Op.4 1849
L'Impatience - valses for piano Op.5 1849
The Dahlia Polkas Op.6 1849
Les Plaintes des Zephyres Op.7 1849
Deaux Morceaux Op.8
Caprice Op.12 1851
'Leonore' mazurka Op.18 1855
Bolero Op.20
Chant des Sirens - nocturne Op.21/1
Dans des Lutines Op.21/2
Sunset Glow Op.22 1858
Serenade Op.23
Galop and Tyrolienne Op.24
Six pieces Op.27
Conleur de Rose, galop Op.29 1870
Souvenir Champetre Op.31
Erica Op.32
War March- piano, four hands 1861
Reveries
Home, sweet love
Mazurka du Nord 1874
Melodie
Minna et Brenda 1853
Parting 1864
The Promise 1864
Sonata in C 1865
'Ophelia' romance 1861
'Pellissier' march 1855
Five canons and a two part fugue
A May waltz 1863
L'Amite 1870
The Birds at Sunset 1861
Contented 1881
Daydream, idyll 1881
Dreamdance 1861
Euphrosine - polka 1850
Evening - romance 1865
Le fete villageoise 1850
Song
Afternoon in February words by W H Longfellow 1864
Annie words by GVO 1855
The Appeal words by A Bell 1859
The Bridal Wreath words by WDS Alexander 1870
Come let us wander words by GVO 1851
Dewdrops - vocal trio 1881
Dirge four part song words by R Augustine 1877
Edith words by Grace Aguilar 1851
Showers - for three voices words by A R Samuda 1876
The Fairies Farewell to the Flowers 1861
Farewell words by Bishop Heber 1860
Hope alway words by Minnie 1864
Lovely Spring - four part song words by A R Samuda 1864
A Memory - words by E M Hordle 1881
The Stars are Brightly Beaming words by A R Samuda Op.2 1854
Sunlight - trio words by Senga
In a wood on a windy day words by A Bell 1860
Sympathy - ballad words by E Bell 1860
Break, break, break! words by Alfred Lord Tennyson 1864
La Vedova words by E Saunders 1872
Where love with women dwelt words by W A Gibbs 1887 pub. by Chappell
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Cantatas
The Bride of Triermain words by Sir Walter Scott 1880
A Summer Night - for female voices words by N Crosland
Goblin Market - for treble voices words by Christina Rossetti
Opera
The Wave King 1855
The Bridal Wreath 1863
Organ
Fantasia
Prelude and Fugue in G minor
Though who hast heard thy people's cry - hymn words by E Saunders 1872
Ancient Melodies of the Liturgy of The Spanish and Portuguese Jews, harmonized by E Aguilar
*
Grace Aguilar 1850
Ferdinand Aguilar1854
Henry Aguilar 1857
Ernest Aguilar 1867
Harold Aguilar 1869
A 2-piano arrangement of the E minor symphony, and a concert allegro for 2 pianos by d'Aguilar, were performed in a concert arranged by the composer on, I think, January 16 1896 (in London?) "with Mrs. d'Iffanger, his pupil." (and the composer himself.) (The Year's Music: Personal Concerts, edited by Albert Charles Robinson Carter, page 105. I am assuming he is the "Mr. Aguilar" referred to in context. Google Books. (http://books.google.com/books?id=qRsQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA105)) This work was announced to be premiered in orchestral form way back in 1851, by the way - here (http://books.google.com/books?id=tzwZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA217) ("Among other works will be performed, for the first time in England, Mr. Aguilar's Symphony in E minor" from a journal published May 17, 1851. Assuming only one of his symphonies is in E minor; I've no idea the keys of his symphonies, just that presumably at least one was in, well, E minor. I'm guessing that that was symphony 2, since symphony 3 wasn't composed until 1854, per the above so certainly can't have been premiered in 1851!)
There is an Allegro Maestoso Op.16 for piano and orchestra published by Wessel & Co.
I will have a look at my "A" box when I get home for further info.
Thal
There is as well a "Sestett" for Piano and wind quintet played in 1860 with the composer at the piano (The Musical World, Vol. 38, p. 463). No trace yet of any published score or of the manuscript, though.