2. He was the son of a musically inclined couple. He also wrote several zarzuelas and kundimans. He passed away on October 16, 1952 after which a posthumous award honored him with the title "Outstanding Composer."

3. He is known the "Triumvirate as the "Father of the Kundiman" and belongs to of Fillipino Composers.". His music was Romantic in style, incorporating Western forms and techniques with folk materials.

4. He developed a style that combined European romanticism with chromaticism. He is one of the "Thumvirate of Filipino Composers". His was influenced by the musical styles of Schoenberg, Hindemith and Stravinsky.

5. He is the first National Artist for Music and one of the "triumvirate of Filipino Composers". He was a product of both the Romantic and Impressionist schools of thought. He is best known for his poignantly romantic serenade for violin and piano Hatinggabi.

6. He founded the Centro Escolar de Sefñoritas, Conservatory of Music. He also created the Buencamino Music Academy in 1930

7. He integrated indigenous musical forms, conventions, and instruments in his works in the modern nationalistic style.

8. He was a Filipino composer, music clarinetist. His name was closely identified with his works for the orchestra, conductor for opera, ballet dance recitals, and music for movies.

9. He promoted Philippine music by extensively using folk materials in his works. He recorded folk and darice music around the country with Ramon Tolentino and National Artist for Dance Francisca Reyes

10. He was considered "the first Filipino composer who received an monary degree from a government recognized music school in the nited States."

11. He was known asa anatonalist compove who expressed the Philippines cultural Identity compositions, hymns, marches, art songs, chamber mea, symphonic

12. He is known as a "romantic nationalist", folk elements compositions with Western forts and harmony. He Incorporated Philippine His chords have a ich expressive tonality, as represented in his well loved Sa Ugay ng Duyan, a lullaby melody sung by his mother.

13. He is listed in the "New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians." A prolific composer, his works include concerti, sonatas, symphonies, symphonic poems, five operas in Philippine dialect, numerous band overtures and more than 200 marches.

14. He is among the few composers in the Philippines who composed five full-length operas.

15. He is Contemporary composer and conductor who spans both popular and classical worlds with his pop, ballads, operas, carzuela, orchestral, and choral compositions.