Francisco Feliciano

Francisco Francisco Feliciano (19

February 1941 – 19 September 2014) was
a Filipino composer and conductor. He
was a National Artist of the Philippines for
Music.[1]
 Francisco Feliciano
Born February 19, 1941
Morong, Rizal,
Philippine
Commonwealth

Died September 19, 2014

(aged 73)
Manila, Philippines

Nationality Filipino

Occupation(s) Composer, conductor

Awards Order of National

Artists

Life
Feliciano was born on 19 February 1941, in
Morong, Rizal.[2]

Francisco Feliciano graduated from the

University of the Philippines with a
Teacher's diploma in Music (1967) and a
Masters in Music degree in Composition
(1972). In 1977, he went to the
Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin,
Germany to obtain a diploma in Music
Composition. In 1979 he attended Yale
University School of Music and graduated
with a Master of Musical Arts and a
Doctorate in Musical Arts, Composition.
While at Yale University he conducted the
Yale Contemporary Ensemble, considered
one of the leading performing groups in
America for contemporary and avant-
garde music.[3] His teachers in conducting
were Arthur Weisberg and Martin
Behrmann, while he studied composition
under Jacob Druckman, Isang Yun, H.W.
Zimmerman and Krzysztof Penderecki.

He died on September 19, 2014 in Manila

at the age of 73.

List of works
Major works and arrangements include:

Buksan mo ang aming mga labi

(published 1982) [4]
 Mass of Saint Andrew (published 1981)
[5]

Pamugun (choral, with soprano solo.

published 2002) [6]
Pokpok alimpako (chorus. published
2002) [7]
Three Visayan folksongs: for high voice
(published 1998) [8]

Awards and honors

2014 - National Artist for Music

References
1. Palace Declares New National Artists (htt
p://lifestyle.inquirer.net/163632/palace-dec
lares-new-national-artists-nora-aunor-didnt-
 make-it) . Retrieved from the Philippine
Daily Inquirer (20 June 2014)
2. Filscap honors Dadap, Buenaventura,
Feliciano (http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.n
et/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20090906-22387
0/Filscap-honors-Dadap-Buenaventura-Feli
ciano) . Philippine Daily Inquirer, 6
September 2009
3. Gil, Baby (October 31, 2014). "Gone but not
forgotten" (https://www.philstar.com/entert
ainment/2014/10/31/1386269/gone-not-fo
rgotten) . The Philippine Star.
4. Liturgical; see OCLC 23572750 (https://ww
w.worldcat.org/oclc/23572750) .
5. See OCLC 422227396 (https://www.worldc
at.org/oclc/422227396) .
 6. OCLC 808636564 (https://www.worldcat.or
g/oclc/808636564) .
7. OCLC 225500955 (https://www.worldcat.or
g/oclc/225500955) .
8. See e.g. OCLC 74931831 (https://www.worl
dcat.org/oclc/74931831) .

External links
Francisco Feliciano (https://web.archive.
org/web/20150329161228/http://samb
alikhaan.org/thefounder.htm) - Official
profile at Sambalikhaan Foundation
website.
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