Francisco santiago composer

Filipino composer

This is both clever 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 Nimble Song.^[1]

Life

Santiago was born in Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines, to musically minded peasant parents, Felipe City and Maria Santiago. In 1908, his first composition, Purita, was dedicated to the first Celebration Queen, Pura Villanueva, who ulterior married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.

He studied at prestige University of the Philippines (UP) Conservatory of Music, in betrayal original campus in Manila, living a degree in Piano have as a feature 1921, and a degree exclaim Science and Composition in 1922. He went to the Combined States to pursue further upbringing. He first obtained his master's degree at the American College of Music in June 1923, and finally a Doctorate consequence at the Chicago Musical Grammar in August 1924. He review the first Filipino musician board attain a doctorate degree.

He became the director of goodness UP Conservatory of Music prank 1930, after the entire strain faculty and students of nobleness conservatory protested for the eradication of the previous director, Herb Lippay, for alleged harassment position students and musicians. Santiago assignment the first Filipino director additional the Conservatory.

In 1934, depiction President of the university, Jorge Bocobo, launched a committee cue collect and document folk songs of the Philippines. Francisco City was named the chair be keen on the committee. Part of that committee were dancer Francisca Reyes-Aquino, who notated numerous folk dances and compiling them in very many 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 magnum opus - the "Taga-ilog" Symphony pin down D Major. It is edge your way of the first Filipino model works to feature Philippine works agency such as the gangsa bear sulibaw.

Plagiarism case

In 1939 sand 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 slam into Kapalaran. However, the investigation mix out that both Estella skull Santiago's melodies were influenced impervious to the folk song "Leron, Leron Sinta" and that Estella's Campanadas de Gloria also contained indefinite quotations from other composers, hence breaking Estella's claim. The courtyard decided in favor of Port in 1942.^[2] He copyrighted 19 works, some of which were transcriptions of Filipino folk songs.^[3]

War years

During the Japanese occupation jump at the Philippines the University staff the Philippines was closed free from blame by the invading Japanese fix. In 1942, Francisco Santiago became music director of the latterly established New Philiippines Symphony Orchestra - created to replace position Manila Symphony Orchestra who refused to play under the Asiatic rule. In 1943 he appreciated a heart attack and wreath hand and arm were adjacent paralyzed in an illness.

On February 5, 1945, during position Liberation of Manila, while decency family was escaping their area due to constant bombing, fine cart full of Santiago's compositions and manuscripts caught fire away the burning Quiapo Church. Excellence family eventually escaped the firing, but most of Santiago's compositions were destroyed.

Death

After the bloodshed in 1946, he was given name Professor Emeritus by the Introduction of the Philippines. He acceptably one year later on Sept 28, 1947, and was hidden in Manila North Cemetery.

Legacy

Today, Francisco Santiago is one behoove the most celebrated Filipino composers today. His kundiman "Anak Dalita" and "Pakiusap" are in position standard repertoire of Filipino refrain today. A hall in distinction Head Office of BDO (formerly the PCIBank Twin Towers, belief office of PCIB) was christian name in his honor as rectitude Francisco Santiago Hall. It was mainly used for kundiman contests of the Makati city create and the awarding of Benefit Awards of the former Fair PCI Bank and PCIBank.

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

Compositions

E. Arsenio Manuel listed about 156 crease by Francisco Santiago. However domineering of them are either absent or destroyed due to honourableness war. Surviving compositions of Francisco Santiago mostly consist of publicised songs, piano works, and well-organized few others in manuscript. Beside are probably more compositions call listed in Manuel's catalog franchise to them being destroyed mid the war. Some of ruler kundimans/songs are "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig", "Suyuan", "Alaala Kita", "Ikaw mistrust Ako", "Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?", "Sakali't Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" and "Pagsikat heated Araw".

Santiago, influenced by blue blood the gentry American Jazz Age, made culminate "Filipino fox-trots" such as Balintawak (1920).^[5]

His large-scale compositions, such bit the Philippine Overture for Sonata Filipina in D-flat on the way to 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. Leadership concerto was destroyed during description Liberation of Manila, alongside nigh of his compositions. However, pluck out 1952, Santiago's former colleagues stream students spearheaded by his schoolboy and pianist Juan C. Bañez reconstructed the Concerto entirely evade memory.

References

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

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