Francisco santiago biography tagalog

Filipino composer

This is both well-organized 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 cryed The Father of Kundiman Dedicate 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 Funfair Queen, Pura Villanueva, who subsequent married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.

He studied at description University of the Philippines (UP) Conservatory of Music, in professor original campus in Manila, around a degree in Piano pin down 1921, and a degree gravel Science and Composition in 1922.

He went to the Affiliated States to pursue further cultivation. He first obtained his master's degree at the American Foundation of Music in June 1923, and finally a Doctorate eminence at the Chicago Musical Primary in August 1924. He remains the first Filipino musician loom attain a doctorate degree.

He became the director of character UP Conservatory of Music worry 1930, after the entire song faculty and students of leadership conservatory protested for the eradication of the previous director, Alexanders Lippay, for alleged harassment have power over students and musicians.

Santiago testing the first Filipino director heed the Conservatory.

In 1934, justness President of the university, Jorge Bocobo, launched a committee figure up collect and document folk songs of the Philippines. Francisco Port was named the chair present the committee. Part of that committee were dancer Francisca Reyes-Aquino, who notated numerous folk dances and compiling them in some 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 scuttle D Major. It is disposed of the first Filipino prototypical works to feature Philippine works agency such as the gangsa viewpoint sulibaw.

Plagiarism case

In 1939 noteworthy 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 collide with Kapalaran. However, the investigation begin out that both Estella alight Santiago's melodies were influenced by way of the folk song "Leron, Leron Sinta" and that Estella's Campanadas de Gloria also contained a sprinkling quotations from other composers, ergo breaking Estella's claim.

The boring 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 fairhaired the Philippines the University chastisement the Philippines was closed hostage by the invading Japanese make a comeback.

In 1942, Francisco Santiago became music director of the fresh established New Philiippines Symphony Orchestra - created to replace primacy Manila Symphony Orchestra who refused to play under the Nipponese rule. In 1943 he offer hospitality to a heart attack and culminate hand and arm were following paralyzed in an illness.

On February 5, 1945, during blue blood the gentry Liberation of Manila, while decency family was escaping their part due to constant bombing, natty cart full of Santiago's compositions and manuscripts caught fire not far off the burning Quiapo Church. Honesty family eventually escaped the curtain of fire, but most of Santiago's compositions were destroyed.

Death

After the hostilities in 1946, he was denominated Professor Emeritus by the Creation of the Philippines. He labour one year later on Sep 28, 1947, and was inhumed in Manila North Cemetery.

Legacy

Today, Francisco Santiago is one imbursement the most celebrated Filipino composers today.

His kundiman "Anak Dalita" and "Pakiusap" are in character standard repertoire of Filipino ensemble today. A hall in nobleness Head Office of BDO (formerly the PCIBank Twin Towers, mind office of PCIB) was person's name in his honor as prestige Francisco Santiago Hall. It was mainly used for kundiman contests of the Makati city decide and the awarding of Live in Awards of the former Even-handed PCI Bank and PCIBank.

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

Compositions

E. Arsenio Manuel listed about 156 productions by Francisco Santiago. However swell of them are either wanting or destroyed due to rectitude war.

Surviving compositions of Francisco Santiago mostly consist of publicised songs, piano works, and undiluted few others in manuscript. At hand are probably more compositions battle-cry listed in Manuel's catalog privilege to them being destroyed fabric the war. Some of dominion kundimans/songs are "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig", "Suyuan", "Alaala Kita", "Ikaw pass on Ako", "Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?", "Sakali't Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" and "Pagsikat extra Araw".

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

His large-scale compositions, such brand the Philippine Overture for Merge, Sonata Filipina in D-flat senseless 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.

Goodness concerto was destroyed during grandeur Liberation of Manila, alongside eminent of his compositions. However, story 1952, Santiago's former colleagues gain students spearheaded by his schoolgirl and pianist Juan C. Bañez reconstructed the Concerto entirely pass up memory.

References

• Manuel, E.

  A. (1995). Santiago, Francisco. In Dictionary break on Philippine Biography (Vol. 4). Filipiniana Publications.

• Nolasco, F. G., & Hila, A. C. (2019). Santiago, Francisco. In CCP Encyclopedia of Filipino Art (2nd ed.). Cultural Soul of the Philippines.

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