Ernani Cuenco
Music Teacher, Film music contributor
1936 – 1988
Who was Ernani Cuenco?
Ernani Joson Cuenco was a Filipino composer, film scorer, musical director and music teacher. He wrote an outstanding and memorable body of works that resonate with the Filipino sense of musicality and which embody an ingenious voice that raises the aesthetic dimensions of contemporary Filipino music. Cuenco played with the Filipino Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Manila Symphony Orchestra from 1960 to 1968, and the Manila Chamber Soloists from 1966 to 1970. He completed a music degree in piano and cello from the University of Santo Tomas where he also taught for decades until his death in 1988.
His songwriting credits include "Nahan, Kahit na Magtiis," and "Diligin Mo ng Hamog ang Uhaw na Lupa," "Pilipinas," "Inang Bayan," "Isang Dalangin," "Kalesa," "Bato sa Buhangin" and "Gaano Kita Kamahal." The latter song shows how Cuenco enriched the Filipino love ballad by adding the elements of kundiman to it.
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- Born
- May 10, 1936
Malolos - Also known as
- Ernani J. Cuenco
- Ernani V. Cuenco
- Hernani Cuenco
- Prof. Ernani
- Ernani Joson Cuenco
- Prof. Ernani Cuenco
- Parents
- Nationality
- Philippines
- Profession
- Died
- 1988
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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