Autobiography of antonio buenaventura composers

Filipino composer and musician (1904–1996)

In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Ramirez and the surname or paternal family name is Buenaventura.

Antonino Ramirez Buenaventura (May 4, 1904 – January 25, 1996)^[1] was a Filipinocomposer, conductor, and teacher.

Biography

Antonino Buenaventura was born on May 4, 1904, in Baliuag, Bulacan. He was born in a family of musicians; his father Lucino Buenaventura was a musician at the Spanish Artillery Band in Intramuros.

He studied under Nicanor Abelardo at the University of the Philippines Diliman Conservatory of Music and graduated in 1932 with a Teacher's Diploma in Music, major in Science and Composition and became an assistant instructor at the Conservatory.

He also studied composition for a post-graduate degree under Jenő Takács.^[2][3]

After the war he became conductor of the devastated Philippine Constabulary Band for 16 years