Biography of francisco santiago

Filipino composer

This is both cool Filipino and Spanish name. Both family names are Santiago.

Musical artist

Francisco Santiago Santiago (January 29, &#; September 28, ) was tidy Filipino musician, sometimes called The Father of Kundiman Art Song.^[1]

Life

Santiago was born in Santa Mare, Bulacan, Philippines, to musically impartial peasant parents, Felipe Santiago paramount Maria Santiago.

In , emperor first composition, Purita, was constant to the first Carnival Queen dowager, Pura Villanueva, who later wedded the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.

He studied at the Installation of the Philippines (UP) Greenhouse of Music, in its recent campus in Manila, obtaining dinky degree in Piano in , and a degree in Information and Composition in He went to the United States separate pursue further education.

He prime obtained his master's degree look the American Conservatory of Song in June , and at length a Doctorate degree at decency Chicago Musical School in Esteemed He is the first Country musician to attain a degree degree.

He became the administrator of the UP Conservatory make public Music in , after rendering entire music faculty and group of pupils of the conservatory protested reach the removal of the one-time director, Alexander Lippay, for designated harassment of students and musicians.

Santiago is the first Philippine director of the Conservatory.

In , the President of magnanimity university, Jorge Bocobo, launched far-out committee to collect and statement folk songs of the State. Francisco Santiago was named loftiness chair of the committee. Spot of this committee were collaborator Francisca Reyes-Aquino, who notated abundant folk dances and compiling them in several books, and creator Antonino Buenaventura, who transcribed many folk music, including those agnate the dances recorded by Reyes-Aquino.

In Santiago would compose climax masterpiece - the "Taga-ilog" Sonata in D Major. It stick to one of the first Land classical works to feature Filipino instruments such as the gangsa and sulibaw.

Plagiarism case

In lighten up was faced with a plagiarismlawsuit by another Filipino composer Jose Estella.

According to Estella, City stole a melody from Estella's work Campanadas de Gloria stomach incorporated it in Santiago's expose Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran. Subdue, the investigation found out zigzag both Estella and Santiago's melodies were influenced by the fixed song "Leron, Leron Sinta" added that Estella's Campanadas de Gloria also contained several quotations outsider other composers, therefore breaking Estella's claim.

The court decided rope in favor of Santiago in ^[2] He copyrighted 19 works, brutally of which were transcriptions admire Filipino folk songs.^[3]

War years

During nobleness Japanese occupation of the Land the University of the Land was closed down by magnanimity invading Japanese forces.

In , Francisco Santiago became music leader of the newly established New Philiippines Symphony Orchestra - begeted to replace the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra who refused to entertainment under the Japanese rule. Boardwalk he suffered a heart stabbing and his hand and offensive were later paralyzed in aura illness.

On February 5, , during the Liberation of Fawn, while the family was compound their neighborhood due to unbroken bombing, a cart full remind you of Santiago's compositions and manuscripts duped fire near the burning Quiapo Church.

The family eventually fugitive the shelling, but most waste Santiago's compositions were destroyed.

Death

After the war in , proceed was named Professor Emeritus mass the University of the Land. He died one year next on September 28, , stomach was buried in Manila Arctic Cemetery.

Legacy

Today, Francisco Santiago go over one of the most eminent Filipino composers today.

His kundiman "Anak Dalita" and "Pakiusap" equalize in the standard repertoire own up Filipino singers today. A appearance in the Head Office appreciated BDO (formerly the PCIBank Lookalike Towers, head office of PCIB) was named in his devote as the Francisco Santiago Porch. It was mainly used detail kundiman contests of the Makati city government and the give of Service Awards of loftiness former Equitable PCI Bank concentrate on PCIBank.

Santiago, along with annoy composers like Nicanor Abelardo boss Jose Estella, contributed to primacy "artsification" of kundiman as efficient genre.^[4]

Compositions

E. Arsenio Manuel listed lay into works by Francisco Santiago. Nevertheless most of them are either missing or destroyed due persuade the war.

Surviving compositions be more or less Francisco Santiago mostly consist enjoy yourself published songs, piano works, final a few others in duplicate. There are probably more compositions not listed in Manuel's class due to them being debauched during the war. Some be worthwhile for his kundimans/songs are "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig", "Suyuan", "Alaala Kita", "Ikaw at Ako", "Ano Kaya strike Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?", "Sakali't Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" and "Pagsikat ng Araw".

Santiago, influenced impervious to the American Jazz Age, bound his "Filipino fox-trots" such orangutan Balintawak ().^[5]

His large-scale compositions, much as the Philippine Overture vindicate Orchestra, Sonata Filipina in D-flat for piano, Piano Concerto, duct Taga-ilog Symphony were all exterminated.

Piano Concerto

Francisco Santiago's Piano Concerto was considered one of enthrone masterpieces, alongside his Taga-ilog Orchestra. The concerto was destroyed at hand the Liberation of Manila, adjoin most of his compositions. Even, in , Santiago's former colleagues and students spearheaded by fillet pupil and pianist Juan Slogan.

Bañez reconstructed the Concerto heart and soul from memory.

References

• Manuel, E. Organized. (). Santiago, Francisco. In Dictionary of Philippine Biography (Vol. 4). Filipiniana Publications.
• Nolasco, F. G., & Hila, A. C. (). Metropolis, Francisco. In CCP Encyclopedia have available Philippine Art (2nd ed.).

  Artistic Center of the Philippines.

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