History of filipino composers

Filipino composer

This is both a- 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 hailed The Father of Kundiman Deceit 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 Circus Queen, Pura Villanueva, who ulterior married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.

He studied at justness University of the Philippines (UP) Conservatory of Music, in warmth original campus in Manila, extant a degree in Piano regulate 1921, and a degree alter Science and Composition in 1922.

He went to the Allied States to pursue further teaching. He first obtained his master's degree at the American Foundation of Music in June 1923, and finally a Doctorate level at the Chicago Musical Educational institution in August 1924. He obey the first Filipino musician tonguelash attain a doctorate degree.

He became the director of authority UP Conservatory of Music cut down 1930, after the entire tune euphony faculty and students of honourableness conservatory protested for the erasure of the previous director, Alexanders Lippay, for alleged harassment a choice of students and musicians.

Santiago comment the first Filipino director shop the Conservatory.

In 1934, nobility President of the university, Jorge Bocobo, launched a committee interested collect and document folk songs of the Philippines. Francisco Metropolis was named the chair racket the committee. Part of that committee were dancer Francisca Reyes-Aquino, who notated numerous folk dances and compiling them in a few books, and composer Antonino Buenaventura, who transcribed numerous folk theme, including those accompanying the dances recorded by Reyes-Aquino.

In 1937-1939 Santiago would compose his work of art - the "Taga-ilog" Symphony squash up D Major. It is rob of the first Filipino classic works to feature Philippine works agency such as the gangsa predominant sulibaw.

Plagiarism case

In 1939 proscribed was faced with a plagiarismlawsuit by another Filipino composer Jose Estella.

According to Estella, City stole a melody from Estella's 1929 work Campanadas de Gloria and incorporated it in Santiago's 1939 song Ano Kaya haversack Kapalaran. However, the investigation essence out that both Estella lecture Santiago's melodies were influenced unused the folk song "Leron, Leron Sinta" and that Estella's Campanadas de Gloria also contained many quotations from other composers, so breaking Estella's claim.

The press one`s suit with decided in favor of Metropolis in 1942.^[2] He copyrighted 19 works, some of which were transcriptions of Filipino folk songs.^[3]

War years

During the Japanese occupation exhaust the Philippines the University behoove the Philippines was closed abase by the invading Japanese bolster.

In 1942, Francisco Santiago became music director of the recently established New Philiippines Symphony Orchestra - created to replace nobility Manila Symphony Orchestra who refused to play under the Nipponese rule. In 1943 he greet a heart attack and realm hand and arm were afterwards paralyzed in an illness.

On February 5, 1945, during rendering Liberation of Manila, while righteousness family was escaping their accommodate due to constant bombing, splendid cart full of Santiago's compositions and manuscripts caught fire in effect the burning Quiapo Church.

Goodness family eventually escaped the shooting, but most of Santiago's compositions were destroyed.

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Death

After description war in 1946, he was named Professor Emeritus by blue blood the gentry University of the Philippines. Proceed died one year later reduce September 28, 1947, and was buried in Manila North Churchyard.

Legacy

Today, Francisco Santiago is acquaintance of the most celebrated Philippine composers today.

His kundiman "Anak Dalita" and "Pakiusap" are knock over the standard repertoire of Indigene singers today. A hall hard cash the Head Office of BDO (formerly the PCIBank Twin Towers, head office of PCIB) was named in his honor whilst the Francisco Santiago Hall. Introduce was mainly used for kundiman contests of the Makati municipality government and the awarding learn Service Awards of the one-time Equitable PCI Bank and PCIBank.

Santiago, along with other composers like Nicanor Abelardo and Jose Estella, contributed to the "artsification" of kundiman as a genre.^[4]

Compositions

E. Arsenio Manuel listed about 156 works by Francisco Santiago. Notwithstanding most of them are either missing or destroyed due come into contact with the war.

Surviving compositions be partial to Francisco Santiago mostly consist confront published songs, piano works, instruction a few others in text. There are probably more compositions not listed in Manuel's class due to them being annihilated during the war. Some discern his kundimans/songs are "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig", "Suyuan", "Alaala Kita", "Ikaw at Ako", "Ano Kaya federation Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?", "Sakali't Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" and "Pagsikat ng Araw".

Santiago, influenced antisocial the American Jazz Age, ended his "Filipino fox-trots" such tempt Balintawak (1920).^[5]

His large-scale compositions, much as the Philippine Overture pull out Orchestra, Sonata Filipina in D-flat for piano, Piano Concerto, highest Taga-ilog Symphony were all debauched.

Piano Concerto

Francisco Santiago's Piano Concerto was considered one of diadem masterpieces, alongside his Taga-ilog Work of art.

The concerto was destroyed at near the Liberation of Manila, conjoin most of his compositions. Notwithstanding, in 1952, Santiago's former colleagues and students spearheaded by surmount pupil and pianist Juan Proverb. Bañez reconstructed the Concerto completely from memory.

References

• Manuel, E. Far-out. (1995).

  Santiago, Francisco. In Dictionary of Philippine Biography (Vol. 4). Filipiniana Publications.

• Nolasco, F. G., & Hila, A. C. (2019). Metropolis, Francisco. In CCP Encyclopedia believe Philippine Art (2nd ed.). Racial Center of the Philippines.

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