Agung jose maceda biography

(b.

Agung jose maceda biography

31 January 1917, Manila – d. 5 May 2004, Quezon City).

Filipino composer of interdisciplinary works that have been performed throughout the world; he was also active as a musicologist.

Prof. Maceda studied piano with Victorina Lobregat at the Academy of Music in Manila, where he graduated in 1935, and with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris from 1937–41.

He later studied piano privately with E. Robert Schmitz in San Francisco from 1946–49 and musicology at Columbia University and Queens College, City University of New York from 1950–52. He then studied anthropology at the University of Chicago and ethnomusicology at Indiana University in Bloomington in 1957–58 and the University of California, Los Angeles from 1961–63, where he earned his PhD.

Among his many honours were grants from the Guggenheim Foundation (1957–58, for study in the USA) and the Rockefeller Foundation (1968, for research in Africa and Braz