Emanuel Aguilar 1824-1904

[giles.enders]

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

[eschiss1]

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.)  This work was announced to be premiered in orchestral form way back in 1851, by the way - here ("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!)

[thalbergmad]

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

[Simon]

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.