Rosendo santos sr biography

Rosendo Ejercito Santos, Jr. was born on September 3, 1922. He was born and raised in Caridad, Cavite City in the Philippines. He was the youngest child and only son. His father was Rosendo Ejercito Santos, Sr., a vigorous politician who thrice served as mayor of Cavite.

Rosendo inherited his music from his mother, the former Castora Salazar: a genteel Caviteña who, as a young girl in pre-Revolutionary days, was an accomplished harpist.

Rosendo santos sr biography

Although his father had hopes of his son going into law (much like Robert Schumann’s father and other prominent composers), his mother always loved music and encouraged Rosendo’s efforts. He took his first music lessons when he was 10 under Julian Felipe, the composer of the Philippine National Anthem.

A year later, he was teaching music for employment.

His pupils thought it was more painless to study music under a teacher who, when the solfeggio palled, could be trusted to play patintero with them! As a freshman at Cavite High School, at the rip