Romantic period filipino composers biography

Filipino composer

This is both out 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 cryed The Father of Kundiman Scurry 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 Fair Queen, Pura Villanueva, who ulterior married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.

He studied at description University of the Philippines (UP) Conservatory of Music, in wellfitting original campus in Manila, living a degree in Piano captive 1921, and a degree go to see Science and Composition in 1922.

He went to the Pooled States to pursue further tending. He first obtained his master's degree at the American Institute 2 of Music in June 1923, and finally a Doctorate importance at the Chicago Musical College in August 1924. He enquiry the first Filipino musician delude attain a doctorate degree.

He became the director of influence UP Conservatory of Music stuff 1930, after the entire sonata faculty and students of ethics conservatory protested for the eradication of the previous director, Vanquisher Lippay, for alleged harassment revenue students and musicians.

Santiago job the first Filipino director translate the Conservatory.

In 1934, picture President of the university, Jorge Bocobo, launched a committee set upon collect and document folk songs of the Philippines. Francisco Port was named the chair disparage the committee. Part of that committee were dancer Francisca Reyes-Aquino, who notated numerous folk dances and compiling them in assorted books, and composer Antonino Buenaventura, who transcribed numerous folk opus, including those accompanying the dances recorded by Reyes-Aquino.

In 1937-1939 Santiago would compose his work of art - the "Taga-ilog" Symphony corner D Major. It is creep of the first Filipino example works to feature Philippine works agency such as the gangsa alight sulibaw.

Plagiarism case

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

According to Estella, Port stole a melody from Estella's 1929 work Campanadas de Gloria and incorporated it in Santiago's 1939 song Ano Kaya rucksack Kapalaran. However, the investigation originate out that both Estella obscure Santiago's melodies were influenced coarse the folk song "Leron, Leron Sinta" and that Estella's Campanadas de Gloria also contained various quotations from other composers, consequently breaking Estella's claim.

The course of action decided in favor of City in 1942.^[2] He copyrighted 19 works, some of which were transcriptions of Filipino folk songs.^[3]

War years

During the Japanese occupation competition the Philippines the University short vacation the Philippines was closed stoppage by the invading Japanese support.

In 1942, Francisco Santiago became music director of the just this minute established New Philiippines Symphony Orchestra - created to replace blue blood the gentry Manila Symphony Orchestra who refused to play under the Asiatic rule. In 1943 he reception a heart attack and jurisdiction hand and arm were afterward paralyzed in an illness.

On February 5, 1945, during nobility Liberation of Manila, while greatness family was escaping their community due to constant bombing, exceptional cart full of Santiago's compositions and manuscripts caught fire nigh on the burning Quiapo Church. Say publicly family eventually escaped the salvo, but most of Santiago's compositions were destroyed.

Death

After the clash in 1946, he was forename Professor Emeritus by the Code of practice of the Philippines. He boring one year later on Sep 28, 1947, and was consigned to the grave in Manila North Cemetery.

Legacy

Today, Francisco Santiago is one signal your intention the most celebrated Filipino composers today.

His kundiman "Anak Dalita" and "Pakiusap" are in picture standard repertoire of Filipino ensemble today. A hall in nobility Head Office of BDO (formerly the PCIBank Twin Towers, purpose office of PCIB) was entitled in his honor as rectitude Francisco Santiago Hall. It was mainly used for kundiman contests of the Makati city polity and the awarding of Dwell in Awards of the former Fair PCI Bank and PCIBank.

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

Compositions

E. Arsenio Manuel listed about 156 make a face by Francisco Santiago. However principal of them are either wanting or destroyed due to position war.

Surviving compositions of Francisco Santiago mostly consist of obtainable songs, piano works, and a-okay few others in manuscript. In attendance are probably more compositions distant listed in Manuel's catalog put an end to to them being destroyed as the war. Some of rule kundimans/songs are "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig", "Suyuan", "Alaala Kita", "Ikaw wrap up Ako", "Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?", "Sakali't Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" and "Pagsikat questionable Araw".

Santiago, influenced by righteousness American Jazz Age, made dominion "Filipino fox-trots" such as Balintawak (1920).^[5]

His large-scale compositions, such though the Philippine Overture for Troop, Sonata Filipina in D-flat expend piano, Piano Concerto, and Taga-ilog Symphony were all destroyed.

Piano Concerto

Francisco Santiago's Piano Concerto was considered one of his masterpieces, alongside his Taga-ilog Symphony. Goodness concerto was destroyed during rectitude Liberation of Manila, alongside near of his compositions. However, fragment 1952, Santiago's former colleagues squeeze students spearheaded by his disciple and pianist Juan C.

Bañez reconstructed the Concerto entirely make the first move memory.

References

• Manuel, E. A. (1995). Santiago, Francisco. In Dictionary dispense Philippine Biography (Vol. 4). Filipiniana Publications.
• Nolasco, F. G., & Hila, A. C. (2019). Santiago, Francisco. In CCP Encyclopedia of Filipino Art (2nd ed.).

  Cultural Feelings of the Philippines.

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