Emanuel Abraham Aguilar

Emanuel Abraham Aguilar (23 August 1824 – 18 February 1904), was an English concert pianist and composer of Portuguese parentage.

[7] Three symphonies form the core of his orchestral work and show the extent of his early ambitions as a composer.

[9] And there were three cantatas: Summer Night (1875, text by Camilla Dufour Crosland);[10] The Bridal of Triermain (Walter Scott, produced at a Bedford Musical Society concert, 27 October 1880);[11] and Goblin Market (1880, adapted in collaboration with the poet Christina Rossetti).

[2] The latter, lightly sanitised to make it acceptable for school children (it is marked "for treble voices"), received "a modest performance" at the composer's home on 10 January 1880.

[1][14] However, Aguilar's most enduring work, still in use today, was his religious music for the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation of London.