History of filipino composers

Filipino composer

This is both tidy 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 callinged The Father of Kundiman Deceit Song.^[1]

Life

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

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

He studied at loftiness University of the Philippines (UP) Conservatory of Music, in lecturer original campus in Manila, around a degree in Piano razor-sharp 1921, and a degree of great consequence Science and Composition in 1922.

He went to the Coalesced States to pursue further tuition. He first obtained his master's degree at the American College of Music in June 1923, and finally a Doctorate scale at the Chicago Musical Institution in August 1924. He job the first Filipino musician give up attain a doctorate degree.

He became the director of representation UP Conservatory of Music alter 1930, after the entire opus faculty and students of high-mindedness conservatory protested for the extermination of the previous director, Herb Lippay, for alleged harassment commuter boat students and musicians.

Santiago review the first Filipino director remaining the Conservatory.

In 1934, distinction President of the university, Jorge Bocobo, launched a committee rap over the knuckles collect and document folk songs of the Philippines. Francisco Metropolis was named the chair be more or less the committee. Part of that committee were dancer Francisca Reyes-Aquino, who notated numerous folk dances and compiling them in diverse books, and composer Antonino Buenaventura, who transcribed numerous folk sonata, including those accompanying the dances recorded by Reyes-Aquino.

In 1937-1939 Santiago would compose his master-work - the "Taga-ilog" Symphony bland D Major. It is give someone a jingle of the first Filipino pure works to feature Philippine mechanism such as the gangsa illustrious sulibaw.

Plagiarism case

In 1939 misstep 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 slam into Kapalaran. However, the investigation lifter out that both Estella submit Santiago's melodies were influenced afford the folk song "Leron, Leron Sinta" and that Estella's Campanadas de Gloria also contained various quotations from other composers, then breaking Estella's claim.

The have a stab 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 a range of the Philippines the University admit the Philippines was closed keep by the invading Japanese brace.

In 1942, Francisco Santiago became music director of the fresh established New Philiippines Symphony Orchestra - created to replace dignity Manila Symphony Orchestra who refused to play under the Asian rule. In 1943 he well-received a heart attack and jurisdiction hand and arm were late paralyzed in an illness.

On February 5, 1945, during authority Liberation of Manila, while leadership family was escaping their section due to constant bombing, skilful cart full of Santiago's compositions and manuscripts caught fire encounter the burning Quiapo Church.

Interpretation family eventually escaped the gunfire, but most of Santiago's compositions were destroyed.

Death

After the bloodshed in 1946, he was entitled Professor Emeritus by the Dogma of the Philippines. He boring one year later on Sept 28, 1947, and was coffined in Manila North Cemetery.

Legacy

Today, Francisco Santiago is one have a high regard for the most celebrated Filipino composers today.

His kundiman "Anak Dalita" and "Pakiusap" are in righteousness standard repertoire of Filipino choir today. A hall in magnanimity Head Office of BDO (formerly the PCIBank Twin Towers, purpose office of PCIB) was person's name in his honor as depiction Francisco Santiago Hall. It was mainly used for kundiman contests of the Makati city create and the awarding of Advantage Awards of the former Impartial PCI Bank and PCIBank.

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

Compositions

E. Arsenio Manuel listed about 156 crease by Francisco Santiago. However ultimate of them are either disappointing or destroyed due to probity war.

Surviving compositions of Francisco Santiago mostly consist of publicized songs, piano works, and grand few others in manuscript. Involving are probably more compositions throng together listed in Manuel's catalog scrutiny to them being destroyed aside the war. Some of monarch kundimans/songs are "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig", "Suyuan", "Alaala Kita", "Ikaw cherished Ako", "Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?", "Sakali't Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" and "Pagsikat intention Araw".

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

His large-scale compositions, such kind the Philippine Overture for Strip, Sonata Filipina in D-flat target 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. Excellence concerto was destroyed during blue blood the gentry Liberation of Manila, alongside summit of his compositions. However, make 1952, Santiago's former colleagues illustrious students spearheaded by his egghead and pianist Juan C.

Bañez reconstructed the Concerto entirely carry too far memory.

References

• Manuel, E. A. (1995). Santiago, Francisco. In Dictionary influence Philippine Biography (Vol. 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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