Documentary jose maceda biography

In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Montserrat and the surname or paternal family name is Maceda.

Musical artist

José Montserrat Maceda (31 January 1917 – 5 May 2004) was a Filipinoethnomusicologist and composer.^[1] He was named a National Artist of the Philippines for Music in 1998.^[2]

Life

Maceda was born in Manila, Philippines, he studied piano, composition and musical analysis at École Normale de Musique de Paris in France.

After returning to the Philippines, he became a professional pianist, and later studied musicology at Columbia University, and anthropology at Northwestern University. He also started teaching at the University of the Philippines.^[3]

Starting in 1952, he conducted fieldwork on the ethnic Music of the Philippines. From about 1954, he was involved in the research and composition of musique concrète.

In 1958, he worked at a recording studio in Paris which specializ Jose Maceda (January 31, 1917 — March 5, 2004), Philippine ... COD