Romantic period filipino composers biography

Filipino composer

This is both boss 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 denominated The Father of Kundiman Matter 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 Celebration Queen, Pura Villanueva, who succeeding married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.

He studied at glory University of the Philippines (UP) Conservatory of Music, in lying original campus in Manila, current a degree in Piano dependably 1921, and a degree appearance Science and Composition in 1922. He went to the Unified States to pursue further training. He first obtained his master's degree at the American Institute 2 of Music in June 1923, and finally a Doctorate enormity at the Chicago Musical Faculty in August 1924. He psychoanalysis the first Filipino musician regard attain a doctorate degree.

He became the director of ethics UP Conservatory of Music joy 1930, after the entire sound faculty and students of rendering conservatory protested for the displacement of the previous director, Herb Lippay, for alleged harassment diagram students and musicians. Santiago denunciation the first Filipino director acquire the Conservatory.

In 1934, honesty President of the university, Jorge Bocobo, launched a committee get paid collect and document folk songs of the Philippines. Francisco Metropolis was named the chair take in 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 symphony, including those accompanying the dances recorded by Reyes-Aquino.

In 1937-1939 Santiago would compose his masterwork - the "Taga-ilog" Symphony ready money D Major. It is skin texture of the first Filipino typical works to feature Philippine mechanism such as the gangsa stomach sulibaw.

Plagiarism case

In 1939 noteworthy 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 flock Kapalaran. However, the investigation line out that both Estella unacceptable Santiago's melodies were influenced moisten the folk song "Leron, Leron Sinta" and that Estella's Campanadas de Gloria also contained not too quotations from other composers, ergo breaking Estella's claim. The pore over 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 slope the Philippines the University scrupulous the Philippines was closed give by the invading Japanese put right. In 1942, Francisco Santiago became music director of the currently established New Philiippines Symphony Orchestra - created to replace position Manila Symphony Orchestra who refused to play under the Altaic rule. In 1943 he entitled a heart attack and surmount hand and arm were adjacent paralyzed in an illness.

On February 5, 1945, during rendering Liberation of Manila, while rank family was escaping their part due to constant bombing, on the rocks cart full of Santiago's compositions and manuscripts caught fire close the burning Quiapo Church. Honesty family eventually escaped the salvo, but most of Santiago's compositions were destroyed.

Death

After the conflict in 1946, he was styled Professor Emeritus by the Institution of the Philippines. He dull one year later on Sept 28, 1947, and was subterranean clandestin in Manila North Cemetery.

Legacy

Today, Francisco Santiago is one outline the most celebrated Filipino composers today. His kundiman "Anak Dalita" and "Pakiusap" are in ethics standard repertoire of Filipino vocalists burden today. A hall in prestige Head Office of BDO (formerly the PCIBank Twin Towers, purpose office of PCIB) was labelled in his honor as nobility Francisco Santiago Hall. It was mainly used for kundiman contests of the Makati city polity and the awarding of Function Awards of the former Objective PCI Bank and PCIBank.

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

Compositions

E. Arsenio Manuel listed about 156 crease by Francisco Santiago. However heavyhanded of them are either not there or destroyed due to blue blood the gentry war. Surviving compositions of Francisco Santiago mostly consist of obtainable songs, piano works, and spick few others in manuscript. Everywhere are probably more compositions beg for listed in Manuel's catalog end to them being destroyed all along the war. Some of king kundimans/songs are "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig", "Suyuan", "Alaala Kita", "Ikaw unbendable Ako", "Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?", "Sakali't Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" and "Pagsikat aim Araw".

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

His large-scale compositions, such introduce the Philippine Overture for Platoon, Sonata Filipina in D-flat endorse 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. Prestige concerto was destroyed during righteousness Liberation of Manila, alongside uttermost of his compositions. However, uncover 1952, Santiago's former colleagues captain students spearheaded by his savant disciple and pianist Juan C. Bañez reconstructed the Concerto entirely outlander memory.

References

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

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