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Julian Felipe

Explora partituras de piano de Julian Felipe en Zen Virtual Piano. Julián Felipe was a composer who also worked as an organist and a music teacher. His parents were Justo Felipe and Victoria Reyes, and he was born in Cavite Nuevo, the present-day Cavite City, on January 28, 1861. His primary education took place at a public school in Quezon and Binondo, Manila, and his musical talent appeared early. According to the National Library of the Philippines, he began studying music at the age of 10. Later, he became organist at San Pedro Apostol Parish Church in Cavite Nuevo. Fr. Pedro Catalan, a Recollect priest, hired him and also instructed him in playing the piano. Soon after, Felipe was composing songs, and he became a music teacher at La Sagrada Familia, a girls' school. Piano lessons with Fr. Catalan, beside his teaching post at La Sagrada Familia, may suggest a move from pupil to teacher within music. Felipe won at the Exposicion Regional held in Manila in 1895 and was invited to become a member of the Sociedad Musical de Santa Cecilia. He was arrested and jailed at Fort San Felipe in Cavite, alongside the Thirteen Martyrs of Cavite. Felipe was found innocent and freed on June 2, 1897, although the martyrs had been executed on September 12, 1896. His organist post in Cavite Nuevo and his win at the Exposicion Regional in Manila may be read as placing his music in two different cities. General Emilio Aguinaldo asked Felipe to perform, on the piano, a hymn that a Filipino had written in Hongkong. The music was good, yet Felipe was asked to write a hymn of greater solemnity and majesty and dignity, one that could stir patriotic fervor and national pride. Marcha Nacional Filipina, his composition, was first played on June 12, 1898, as incidental music in Aguinaldo's home in Kawit. The Commonwealth Government later adopted it as the Philippine national anthem. If Aguinaldo's request for a solemn hymn is set beside the later adoption of the Marcha Nacional Filipina as the Philippine national anthem, the piece appears tied to national life. In 1899 then-President Aguinaldo appointed Felipe Director of the National Band of the First Philippine Republic. He served as a councilman of Cavite City in 1902. Does the 1899 band directorship, set beside his teaching post at La Sagrada Familia, show a career that joined teaching with public roles? In 1994, Republic Act No. 7805 declared January 28 of every year a non-working holiday in Cavite City, known as "Julian Felipe Day." A holiday named Julian Felipe Day in Cavite City, beside his post as organist at San Pedro Apostol Parish Church in Cavite Nuevo, may point to a link between the holiday's city and the place where he worked as organist.

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