Prominent Filipino Composers - Part 2

He is known to promote Philippine folk music by researching and documenting traditional music and dances of Filipinos around the country.

• Antonino Buenaventura

• Lucio San Pedro

• Rodolfo Cornejo

• Julian Felipe

He became the music instructor and band conductor of the Philippine Military Academy in 1939.

• Antonino Buenaventura

• Lucio San Pedro

• Rodolfo Cornejo

• Julian Felipe

The Creation of the "Philippine Sound" was given attention when he saw the potential of Philippine indigenous musical traditions.

• Antonino Buenaventura

• Lucio San Pedro

• Rodolfo Cornejo

• Julian Felipe

He ws able to produce a wide-range body of works that includes band music, concertos for violin and orchestra, choral works, cantatas, chamber music, music for violin and piano, and songs for solo voice.

• Antonino Buenaventura

• Lucio San Pedro

• Rodolfo Cornejo

• Julian Felipe

He composed Sa Ugoy Ng Duyan.

• Antonino Buenaventura

• Lucio San Pedro

• Rodolfo Cornejo

• Julian Felipe

He had a rare and distinct talent and exceptional ability to render on piano classical and contemporary "on-the-spot" improvisations based on a succession of notes or numbers given by the audience.

• Antonino Buenaventura

• Lucio San Pedro

• Rodolfo Cornejo

• Julian Felipe

He composed Oriental Fantasy and Philippine Fantasy .

• Antonino Buenaventura

• Lucio San Pedro

• Rodolfo Cornejo

• Julian Felipe

He composed the Philippine National Anthem.

• Antonino Buenaventura

• Lucio San Pedro

• Rodolfo Cornejo

• Julian Felipe

He joined the Philippine Revolution in 1896. He was imprisoned at Fort Santiago together with the "13 Martyrs of Cavite."

• Antonino Buenaventura

• Lucio San Pedro

• Rodolfo Cornejo

• Julian Felipe

Emilio Aguinaldo commissioned him to compose a song which was "something stirring and maestic which can inspire Filipinos to fight the enemy..."

• Antonino Buenaventura

• Lucio San Pedro

• Rodolfo Cornejo

• Julian Felipe