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ALFREDO SANTOS BUENAVENTURA
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ALFREDO SANTOS BUENAVENTURA
Life and Background
CONTRIBUTIONS
Alfredo Santos Buenaventura
was born in Sta. Maria, Bulacanon, October 14, 1929. His parents unconsciously provided him the musical atmosphere.
During the pre-war, he became one of the twenty boy sopranos of Tiples at Sto.Domingo Church.They were given first class musical training. At that time, he also wrote his first composition which was a Danza.
At an early age in grade school, he became a member of a band that marched the town because of his fascination with trumpets and trombones.
Bueneventura also had formal music lessons. At the age of 12 to 13, he already arranged and conducted band in his hometown.
Alfredo S. Buenaventura is an excellent musician, composer,conductor and music education teacher.
He is among the few composers in the Philippines who composed five full-length operas. He has his own set of ideas about music and composition.
His minor works which number over 50 are mostly religious songs and hymns for specific celebrations such as the Sixteenth Centenary of St. Augustine,Mass for the 400th Year of the Augustinian Recollect and the Philippine Music Festival.
His other creative musical works have been commissioned by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Metropolitan Theater and NAMCYA.
He also became a member of the League of Filipino Composers and received numerous outstanding awards in music industry such as the Republic Cultural Heritage Awards that he won twice.
MUSIC
COMPOSITIONS
- Maria Makiling (1961)
- Ang Ating Watawat (1965)
- Prinsesa Urduha (1969)
- Gomburza (1981)
- Pasko ng Barangay (1964)
- Diego Silang (1966)
- Dakilang Lahi (1971)
- Rizal, the Great Malayan Antagonist (1990)
He created a combination of contemporary and conventional, kept his melodies simple and understandable but he used contemporary harmonies to suit the intellectuals.
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