Antonio Molina

Filipino administrator, cellist, composer, conductor and teacher Antonio Jesús Naguiat Molina was born in Quiapo, a district of Manila, on 26 December 1894. His father was a government official who founded the Molina Orchestra.

He wrote his first music in 1912, studied in Manila, and developed a teaching career at the Philippines University Music Conservatory, then became dean of the Centro Escolar Music Conservatory.

Antonio Molina died on 29 January 1980, from heart failure, aged eighty-five, leaving more than five hundred compositions.

 

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