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    Francisco F. Feliciano was a Filipino composer, conductor and teacher born in 1941 in Morong, Philippines. He received formal musical training in composition and conducting from the University of the Philippines and Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. He became a prominent figure in liturgical music, composing hundreds of hymns and masses. Feliciano received many honors including being named a National Artist of the Philippines for Music. He was a leading authority on integrating Philippine and Asian musical traditions into modern works.

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    Francisco F. Feliciano was a Filipino composer, conductor and teacher born in 1941 in Morong, Philippines. He received formal musical training in composition and conducting from the University of the Philippines and Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. He became a prominent figure in liturgical music, composing hundreds of hymns and masses. Feliciano received many honors including being named a National Artist of the Philippines for Music. He was a leading authority on integrating Philippine and Asian musical traditions into modern works.

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    Francisco F. Feliciano was a Filipino composer, conductor and teacher born in 1941 in Morong, Philippines. He received formal musical training in composition and conducting from the University of the Philippines and Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. He became a prominent figure in liturgical music, composing hundreds of hymns and masses. Feliciano received many honors including being named a National Artist of the Philippines for Music. He was a leading authority on integrating Philippine and Asian musical traditions into modern works.

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    Francisco F.

    Feliciano was a composer,


    conductor, and teacher. He was born at
    Morong on 19 February 1941 and died on
    19 September 2014, Aged seventy-three.
    He was the son of Maximinano Feliciano
    and Julia Francisco. His father, who was
    also his first music teacher, owned and led
    a band, the Morriz Band.
    He took formal training in music and
    earned a teacher's diploma at the
    University of the Philippines
    Conservatory of Music in composition
    and conducting 1967. He also earned a
    diploma in composition from the
    Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin,
    Germany in 1977 where he mastered the
    latest techniques in textural writing and
    creating sound architectures from simple
    tonal materials. He also supervised the
    publication of an Asian hymnal consisting
    mostly of music by Asian composers. He
    received a John D Rockefeller III Award
    for Music Composition in 1977 too. He
    was awarded as an outstanding student in
    1979 and received a doctor's degree in
    musical arts in composition in 1984 from
    Yale University School of Music. He
    conducted the Yale Contemporary
    Ensemble, recognized as one of the
    prominent ensembles in America
    performing avant-garde and
    contemporary music.
    He became the resident conductor of the
    Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra in
    1981 - 1986 and member of the League of
    Filipino Composers. He established the
    Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music, a
    school dedicated to the exploration of
    traditional music in Asia for utilization in
    Christians liturgy and worship.
    He was one of the country’s leading
    composers of liturgical music. His
    conducting career took him to Japan,
    Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and
    Taiwan, and included dates with the
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the
    Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.

    He was a National Artist of the


    Philippines for Music, and one of Asia's
    leading figures of liturgical music. His
    more than thirty major works include
    music dramas and operas, and his
    hundreds of works of liturgical music
    include hymns, settings of the mass and
    other songs used for worship.
    Additionally, He imbued his works with a
    strong feeling of Filipinism. His work has
    a distinct sound that demonstrates the
    complexities, rhythmic vigor, and
    intricate intertwining of lines drawn from
    Philippine and Asian musical traditions
    portrayed in a modern way.

    His works include:


    - Salimbayan for Woodwind Quartet
    - “Pagdakila sa Kordilyera”
    - Fragments
    - Die erklarung Christi
    - Transfiguration
    - Te Deum
    - Isostasie III
    Eight Pieces for solo Timpani, Bassom,
    Trombone, and Contrabass
    - “Bagbagto”
    - Yerma
    - “Pamugun”
    - “Pokpok Alimpako”
    - La Loba Negra
    Among the awards he received are the
    following:
    - National Artist for music, 2014
    - Recipient of the Patnubay ng Sining at
    Kalinangan Award, City of Manila,
    1983
    - Best Composition in Contemporary
    Music for “Pokpok Alimpako,”
    International Choral Festival in
    Arezzo, Italy, 1981
    - Second Prize Winner for “Salimbayan
    for Woodwind Quartet,” International
    Composition Contest in Hitzacker,
    Germany, 1976
    Francisco
    Feliciano

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