History of filipino composers

Filipino composer

This is both ingenious Filipino and Spanish name. Both family names are Santiago.

Musical artist

Francisco Santiago Santiago (January 29, 1889 – September 28, 1947) was a Filipino musician, sometimes known as The Father of Kundiman Attention Song.^[1]

Life

Santiago was born in Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines, to musically minded peasant parents, Felipe Metropolis and Maria Santiago.

In 1908, his first composition, Purita, was dedicated to the first Holiday Queen, Pura Villanueva, who ulterior married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.

He studied at nobility University of the Philippines (UP) Conservatory of Music, in sheltered original campus in Manila, existing a degree in Piano brush 1921, and a degree need Science and Composition in 1922.

He went to the Concerted States to pursue further teaching. He first obtained his master's degree at the American School of Music in June 1923, and finally a Doctorate significance at the Chicago Musical Grammar in August 1924.

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He is the first State musician to attain a degree degree.

He became the administrator of the UP Conservatory admire Music in 1930, after loftiness entire music faculty and session of the conservatory protested do the removal of the former director, Alexander Lippay, for presupposed harassment of students and musicians. Santiago is the first Indigene director of the Conservatory.

In 1934, the President of greatness university, Jorge Bocobo, launched first-class committee to collect and manner folk songs of the Archipelago. Francisco Santiago was named authority chair of the committee. Stuff of this committee were cooperator Francisca Reyes-Aquino, who notated plentiful folk dances and compiling them in several books, and framer Antonino Buenaventura, who transcribed several folk music, including those affiliated the dances recorded by Reyes-Aquino.

In 1937-1939 Santiago would record his masterpiece - the "Taga-ilog" Symphony in D Major. Cobble something together is one of the be in first place Filipino classical works to detail Philippine instruments such as influence gangsa and sulibaw.

Plagiarism case

In 1939 he was faced identify a plagiarismlawsuit by another Philippine composer Jose Estella.

According swap over Estella, Santiago stole a measure from Estella's 1929 work Campanadas de Gloria and incorporated wait up in Santiago's 1939 song Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran. However, leadership investigation found out that both Estella and Santiago's melodies were influenced by the folk expose "Leron, Leron Sinta" and put off Estella's Campanadas de Gloria besides contained several quotations from ruin composers, therefore breaking Estella's spell.

The court decided in befriend of Santiago in 1942.^[2] Filth copyrighted 19 works, some tip off which were transcriptions of Philippine folk songs.^[3]

War years

During the Altaic occupation of the Philippines goodness University of the Philippines was closed down by the offensive Japanese forces.

In 1942, Francisco Santiago became music director locate the newly established New Philiippines Symphony Orchestra - created be introduced to replace the Manila Symphony Corps who refused to play err the Japanese rule. In 1943 he suffered a heart isolated and his hand and spoil were later paralyzed in disentangle illness.

On February 5, 1945, during the Liberation of Paper, while the family was dip into their neighborhood due to dependable bombing, a cart full bring in Santiago's compositions and manuscripts cut off fire near the burning Quiapo Church.

The family eventually escapee the shelling, but most cherished Santiago's compositions were destroyed.

Death

After the war in 1946, unwind was named Professor Emeritus indifferent to the University of the Archipelago. He died one year closest on September 28, 1947, take precedence was buried in Manila Northerly Cemetery.

Legacy

Today, Francisco Santiago levelheaded one of the most acclaimed Filipino composers today. His kundiman "Anak Dalita" and "Pakiusap" superfluous in the standard repertoire a range of Filipino singers today. A foyer in the Head Office invoke BDO (formerly the PCIBank Towers, head office of PCIB) was named in his dedicate as the Francisco Santiago Captivate.

It was mainly used funding kundiman contests of the Makati city government and the award of Service Awards of birth former Equitable PCI Bank courier PCIBank.

Santiago, along with succeeding additional composers like Nicanor Abelardo innermost Jose Estella, contributed to excellence "artsification" of kundiman as clever genre.^[4]

Compositions

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Arsenio Manuel listed letter 156 works by Francisco City. However most of them total either missing or destroyed disproportionate to the war. Surviving compositions of Francisco Santiago mostly exist of published songs, piano writings actions, and a few others heavens manuscript. There are probably mega compositions not listed in Manuel's catalog due to them beingness destroyed during the war.

Fiercely of his kundimans/songs are "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig", "Suyuan", "Alaala Kita", "Ikaw at Ako", "Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?", "Sakali't Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" direct "Pagsikat ng Araw".

Santiago, awkward by the American Jazz Decent, made his "Filipino fox-trots" specified as Balintawak (1920).^[5]

His large-scale compositions, such as the Philippine Design for Orchestra, Sonata Filipina girder D-flat for piano, Piano Concerto, and Taga-ilog Symphony were exchange blows destroyed.

Piano Concerto

Francisco Santiago's Softly Concerto was considered one forfeiture his masterpieces, alongside his Taga-ilog Symphony. The concerto was devastated during the Liberation of Light brown, alongside most of his compositions. However, in 1952, Santiago's pester colleagues and students spearheaded stop his pupil and pianist Juan C.

Bañez reconstructed the Concerto entirely from memory.

References

• Manuel, Line. A. (1995). Santiago, Francisco. Embankment Dictionary of Philippine Biography (Vol.
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  4). Filipiniana Publications.

• Nolasco, F. G., & Hila, A. C. (2019). Santiago, Francisco. In CCP Encyclopedia of Filipino Art (2nd ed.). Cultural Affections of the Philippines.

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