NATIONAL ARTIST

of the
PHILIPPINES
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 NATIONAL ARTIST
for
MUSIC
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 PRESENTATION
OUTLINE:
• Brief Information about the National Artist Felipe Padilla De
Leon
• Educational Background of Felipe Padilla De Leon
• Awards
• Significant Contributions in the Philippine Arts of Felipe Padilla
De Leon

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 FELIPE PADILLA DE
LEON
National Artist for Music (1997)
• National Artist for Music (1997)
(May 1, 1912 – December 5, 1992)
• Filipino classical music composer, conductor,
and scholar.
• He was known for Filipinizing western music
forms.
• Known as a nationalist composer

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 FELIPE PADILLA DE
LEON
National
• FelipeArtist
P. Defor Music
Leon (1997)
wrote piano compositions,
hymns, marches, art songs, chamber music,
symphonic poems and overtures, band music,
school songs, orchestral works, operas,
kundimans and sarswelas.
.

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 FELIPE PADILLA DE
LEON
He is the recipient of various awards and
National Artist for Music (1997)
distinctions:

• Republic Cultural Heritage Award

• Doctor of Humanities from UP
• Rizal Pro-Patria Award
• Presidential Award of Merit
• Patnubay ng Kalinangan

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 FELIPE PADILLA DE
LEON
National
• Born inArtist for Music
the Barrio (1997)
of Papaya (now General Tinio) in
Penaranda,
(May 1, 1912 Nueva Ecija.
– December 5, 1992)
• Son of Juan de Leon and Natalia Padilla
• The third of four children by the second marriage of his
mother
• He held a number of odd jobs ranging from that of a shoe-
shine boy, a carabao herder, a rig driver, a seller of vernacular
weeklies, and an ice-cream and pan de sal vendor.

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 FELIPE PADILLA DE
• He studied at Nueva Ecija High School
LEON
• In 1927, he took up Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines

TROMBON
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LEON
• He worked as an assistant conductor of the Nueva Ecija High School Orchestra where he
started doing musical arrangements.
• He decided to study formally and enrolled at the University of the Philippines
Conservatory of Music, where he studied under Col. Antonio Buenaventura and Antonio
Molina.

Antonio Buenaventura Antonio

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• In 1939, he graduated with a music teacher's diploma, major in conducting. Much later,

LEON
he took advanced studies in composition under Vittorio Giannini of the Julliard School of
Music in New York.

Vittorio
Giannini

• De Leon received many awards. Among them are Composer of the Year (1949), Manila
Music Lovers Society, Musician Of the Year (1958), UP Conservatory of Music, and
others. He was conferred an honorary degree, doctor of philosophy in the humanities, by
the University of the Philippines in 1991.

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 Bayani De Leon Felipe De Leon Jr.
-Composer -Writer
• Felipe de Leon married pianist Iluminada Mendoza with
whom he had six children.
• Bayani and Felipe Jr., are two of his children; the former
Iluminada Mendoza being a well-known composer, and the latter, a writer.

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 Selected works

Operas:
Noli me Tangere (Touch me Not), opera in 3 acts (1957)
El Filibusterismo (Subversion), opera (1970)

Concertos:
Flute Concerto (1980)

Chamber:
Fantasy for four flutes and percussion

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 Orchestral works:
Mariang Makiling Overture (1939)
Roca Encantada, symphonic legend (1950)
Maynila Overture (1976)
Tatlong Tunog Larawan (Three Sound Portraits), for orchestra
(1976)
Orchesterstück (1981)
Manila Sketches for Orchestra (1949)
Bataan, tone poem (1947)
Cry of Balintawak, tone poem (1948)
Mga Katutubong Tanawin
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 Marches and other works
for band:
Bagong Pagsilang (New Birth)
Tayo’y Magtanim (Let Us Plant)
Ang Karomata (The Carriage)
Tindig, Aking Inang Bayan
Fantasy for Trombone and Band
Mayumi Theme and Variations
Awit ng Maynila (Song of Manila)
Himno ng Marikina (Markina Hymn)
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 AWARDS AND
Republic Cultural Heritage Award
HONORS
Rizal Pro-Patria Award
Presidential Award of Merit
Patnubay ng Kalinangan Award
Composer of the Year (1949)
Musician of the Year (Manila, 1958)
National Artist of the Philippines (1997)

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 thanks
for
listening...
Presented by:
Ginger Joie B. Naval
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