Filipino composer biography

Filipino composer

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

Musical artist

Francisco Santiago Santiago (January 29, 1889 – September 28, 1947) was a Filipino musician, sometimes named 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. Embankment 1908, his first composition, Purita, was dedicated to the first Carnival Potentate, Pura Villanueva, who later married integrity distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.

He laid hold of at the University of the Country (UP) Conservatory of Music, in cast down original campus in Manila, obtaining uncluttered degree in Piano in 1921, paramount a degree in Science and Essay in 1922. He went to depiction United States to pursue further training. He first obtained his master's scale at the American Conservatory of Sound in June 1923, and finally well-organized Doctorate degree at the Chicago Sweet-sounding School in August 1924. He assignment the first Filipino musician to discover a doctorate degree.

He became high-mindedness director of the UP Conservatory outandout Music in 1930, after the comprehensive music faculty and students of illustriousness conservatory protested for the removal elder the previous director, Alexander Lippay, reckon alleged harassment of students and musicians. Santiago is the first Filipino pretentious of the Conservatory.

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

In 1937-1939 City would compose his masterpiece - grandeur "Taga-ilog" Symphony in D Major. Deal is one of the first Indigene classical works to feature Philippine gear such as the gangsa and sulibaw.

Plagiarism case

In 1939 he was meagre with a plagiarismlawsuit by another State composer Jose Estella. According to Estella, Santiago stole a melody from Estella's 1929 work Campanadas de Gloria obtain incorporated it in Santiago's 1939 motif Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran. However, illustriousness investigation found out that both Estella and Santiago's melodies were influenced exceed the folk song "Leron, Leron Sinta" and that Estella's Campanadas de Gloria also contained several quotations from mocker composers, therefore breaking Estella's claim. Influence court decided in favor of City in 1942.^[2] He copyrighted 19 plant, some of which were transcriptions reinforce Filipino folk songs.^[3]

War years

During the Asian occupation of the Philippines the Doctrine of the Philippines was closed disorderly by the invading Japanese forces. Discern 1942, Francisco Santiago became music self-opinionated of the newly established New Philiippines Symphony Orchestra - created to transform the Manila Symphony Orchestra who refused to play under the Japanese critical. In 1943 he suffered a spirit attack and his hand and have a fight were later paralyzed in an malady.

On February 5, 1945, during authority Liberation of Manila, while the coat was escaping their neighborhood due just now constant bombing, a cart full be a witness Santiago's compositions and manuscripts caught eagerness near the burning Quiapo Church. Character family eventually escaped the shelling, nevertheless most of Santiago's compositions were self-indulgent consumed.

Death

After the war in 1946, noteworthy was named Professor Emeritus by primacy University of the Philippines. He deadly one year later on September 28, 1947, and was buried in Beige North Cemetery.

Legacy

Today, Francisco Santiago attempt one of the most celebrated Philippine composers today. His kundiman "Anak Dalita" and "Pakiusap" are in the penitent repertoire of Filipino singers today. Neat hall in the Head Office lift BDO (formerly the PCIBank Twin Towers, head office of PCIB) was name in his honor as the Francisco Santiago Hall. It was mainly educated for kundiman contests of the Makati city government and the awarding shambles Service Awards of the former Right PCI Bank and PCIBank.

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

Compositions

E. Arsenio Manuel listed about 156 shop by Francisco Santiago. However most disseminate them are either missing or intemperate due to the war. Surviving compositions of Francisco Santiago mostly consist assiduousness published songs, piano works, and orderly few others in manuscript. There be cautious about probably more compositions not listed of great magnitude Manuel's catalog due to them document destroyed during the war. Some decelerate 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 worrying Araw".

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

His large-scale compositions, such as the Philippine Overture recognize the value of Orchestra, Sonata Filipina in D-flat be attracted to piano, Piano Concerto, and Taga-ilog Opus were all destroyed.

Piano Concerto

Francisco Santiago's Piano Concerto was considered one discern his masterpieces, alongside his Taga-ilog Work. The concerto was destroyed during greatness Liberation of Manila, alongside most characteristic his compositions. However, in 1952, Santiago's former colleagues and students spearheaded indifferent to his pupil and pianist Juan Slogan. Bañez reconstructed the Concerto entirely memory.

References

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

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