Hilarión Eslava
1807 — 1878
Miguel Hilarión Eslava y Elizondo was a Spanish composer and pedagogue.
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Miguel Hilarion Eslava, a Spanish composer and editor, served as chapel-master at Ossuna in 1828, then in Seville from 1832, before being ordained a priest and appointed chapel-master to Queen Isabella in 1844, according to Brown’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1886). He was considered “one of the greatest among modern Spanish composers,” with his sacred music judged “superior in many respects to most Italian composers of recent times.” His significant contributions include the ten-volume Lira Sacro-Hispana, a “valuable collection of Spanish sacred music” featuring works by both ancient and modern Spanish masters, which also includes two five-part Passions by Francisco Guerrero, as noted in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1905). Eslava also edited the Gaceta musical from 1855-1856, to which Francisco Assis Gil contributed, and taught composition at the Madrid Conservatory, where Manuel Fernandez Caballero was his pupil.