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Short Intro
Introduction
Early Life
Contributions
Achievements

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Music is the art of arranging sounds through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm and timbre. These elements can be able to produce a beautiful tone that can soothe our very soul. It helps us express emotion, feelings, and even tell a tale. It is one of the universal aspects of human society.

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His other creative musical works have been   commissioned   by   the   Cultural   Center   of   the Philippines,   Metropolitan   Theater   and NAMCYA

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Alfredo Buenaventura has made quite a lot of contributions to the country and to viewers with his work. His career brought him teaching appointments at the Philippine Women’s University, Saint Scholastica’s College and at the Centro Escolar University where he became the Dean of Music at the conservatory. He also held several teaching positions and has served as an organist at the Manila Cathedral.

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He then created a unique combination of both contemporary and conventional music which kept his melodies simple and understandable but he made the contemporary harmonies to  suit the intellectuals.

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He is among the few composers in the Philippines who composed five full-length operas.

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Buenaventura's compositions are nationalist and employ Romantic, impressionist and contemporary styles

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He is among the few composers in the Philippines who composed five full-length operas. He has his own set of ideas about music and composition. He created a combination of contemporary and conventional, kept his melodies simple and understandable but he used contemporary harmonies to suit the intellectuals.

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His minor works which number over 50 are mostly religious songs and hymns for specific celebrations such as the Sixteenth Centenary of St. Augustine, Mass for the 400th Year of the Augustinian Recollect and the Philippine Music Festival.

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Alfredo BUENAVENTURA Philippine Medley No  2

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Here are videos featuring 3 of his compositions:

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Here are videos featuring 3 of his compositions:

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Alfredo Buenaventura - Violin Concerto "Lakambini" (1983)

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His many compositions include a number of operas, symphonic poems, vocal works and chamber music.

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Alfredo Buenaventura is mostly known for his many compositions. He was formerly an organist and received many awards thanks to his compositions.

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He also became a member of the League of Filipino Composers and received numerous outstanding awards in music industry such as the Republic Cultural Heritage Awards that he won twice

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Bueneventura also had formal music lessons. At the age of 12 to 13, he already arranged and conducted band in his hometown. He was an official organist of the Manila Cathedral from 1960.

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At an early age, Alfredo's parents unconsciously provided him an musical atmosphere. And so in grade school, he became a member of a band that marched the town because of his fascination with trumpets and trombones.

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During the pre-war, he became one of the twenty boy sopranos of Tiples at Sto.Domingo Church. They were given first class musical training. At that time, he also wrote his first composition which was a Danza.

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He held several teaching positions and has served as organist at the Manila Cathedral. He also served as dean of the Centro Escolar University Conservatory.

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Alfredo Santos Buenaventura was born in Santa Maria, Bulacan in 1929. He was an excellent musician, composer, conductor, and music education teacher.