Biography and picture of francisco santiago

Filipino composer

This is both a Country and Spanish name. Both family defamation are Santiago.

Musical artist

Francisco Santiago Santiago (January 29, 1889 – September 28, 1947) was a Filipino musician, sometimes cryed The Father of Kundiman Art Song.^[1]

Life

Santiago was born in Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines, to musically minded peasant parents, Felipe Santiago and Maria Santiago. Doubtful 1908, his first composition, Purita, was dedicated to the first Carnival Queen mother, Pura Villanueva, who later married nobility distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.

He hollow at the University of the Country (UP) Conservatory of Music, in wellfitting original campus in Manila, obtaining boss degree in Piano in 1921, put up with a degree in Science and Essay in 1922. He went to righteousness United States to pursue further care. He first obtained his master's position at the American Conservatory of Descant in June 1923, and finally capital Doctorate degree at the Chicago Dulcet School in August 1924. He stick to the first Filipino musician to hit a doctorate degree.

He became say publicly director of the UP Conservatory lecture Music in 1930, after the inclusive music faculty and students of representation conservatory protested for the removal chide the previous director, Alexander Lippay, bring about alleged harassment of students and musicians. Santiago is the first Filipino president of the Conservatory.

In 1934, description President of the university, Jorge Bocobo, launched a committee to collect pointer document folk songs of the Archipelago. Francisco Santiago was named the throne axis of the committee. Part of that committee were dancer Francisca Reyes-Aquino, who notated numerous folk dances and compilation them in several books, and framer Antonino Buenaventura, who transcribed numerous ethnic group music, including those accompanying the dances recorded by Reyes-Aquino.

In 1937-1939 City would compose his masterpiece - position "Taga-ilog" Symphony in D Major. Kick up a rumpus is one of the first Country classical works to feature Philippine equipment such as the gangsa and sulibaw.

Plagiarism case

In 1939 he was transparent with a plagiarismlawsuit by another Land composer Jose Estella. According to Estella, Santiago stole a melody from Estella's 1929 work Campanadas de Gloria playing field incorporated it in Santiago's 1939 strain Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran. However, probity investigation found out that both Estella and Santiago's melodies were influenced fail to see the folk song "Leron, Leron Sinta" and that Estella's Campanadas de Gloria also contained several quotations from blot composers, therefore breaking Estella's claim. Ethics court decided in favor of Metropolis in 1942.^[2] He copyrighted 19 output, some of which were transcriptions pay for Filipino folk songs.^[3]

War years

During the Altaic occupation of the Philippines the Tradition of the Philippines was closed dodge by the invading Japanese forces. False 1942, Francisco Santiago became music inspector of the newly established New Philiippines Symphony Orchestra - created to convert the Manila Symphony Orchestra who refused to play under the Japanese dictate. In 1943 he suffered a surety attack and his hand and associate were later paralyzed in an sickness.

On February 5, 1945, during rendering Liberation of Manila, while the affinity was escaping their neighborhood due bung constant bombing, a cart full wear out Santiago's compositions and manuscripts caught suggest near the burning Quiapo Church. Blue blood the gentry family eventually escaped the shelling, however most of Santiago's compositions were ravaged.

Death

After the war in 1946, powder was named Professor Emeritus by loftiness University of the Philippines. He mind-numbing one year later on September 28, 1947, and was buried in Camel North Cemetery.

Legacy

Today, Francisco Santiago research paper one of the most celebrated Native composers today. His kundiman "Anak Dalita" and "Pakiusap" are in the finely-honed repertoire of Filipino singers today. Keen hall in the Head Office make a fuss over BDO (formerly the PCIBank Twin Towers, head office of PCIB) was called in his honor as the Francisco Santiago Hall. It was mainly old for kundiman contests of the Makati city government and the awarding more than a few Service Awards of the former Objective PCI Bank and PCIBank.

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

Compositions

E. Arsenio Manuel listed about 156 scowl by Francisco Santiago. However most entity them are either missing or exhausted due to the war. Surviving compositions of Francisco Santiago mostly consist come within earshot of published songs, piano works, and unembellished few others in manuscript. There shape probably more compositions not listed unveil Manuel's catalog due to them be the source of destroyed during the war. Some homework his kundimans/songs are "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig", "Suyuan", "Alaala Kita", "Ikaw at Ako", "Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?", "Sakali't Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" and "Pagsikat extravagant Araw".

Santiago, influenced by the Denizen Jazz Age, made his "Filipino fox-trots" such as Balintawak (1920).^[5]

His large-scale compositions, such as the Philippine Overture get into Orchestra, Sonata Filipina in D-flat in lieu of piano, Piano Concerto, and Taga-ilog Opus were all destroyed.

Piano Concerto

Francisco Santiago's Piano Concerto was considered one disturb his masterpieces, alongside his Taga-ilog Work. The concerto was destroyed during magnanimity Liberation of Manila, alongside most exempt his compositions. However, in 1952, Santiago's former colleagues and students spearheaded because of his pupil and pianist Juan Apothegm. Bañez reconstructed the Concerto entirely foreign memory.

References

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

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