ANTONIO MOLINA

ANTONIO MOLINA 

                          Dr. Antonio Molina (1894-1980) has one of the 20th century composers who wrote art music. He was considered the "Claude Debussy of the Philippines" because he was the first to introduce several important devices, technically characteristics of impressionism in music.

     

                        One of Molina's popularly known composition is "Hating gabi". Another composition of Molina is "Dancing Fool". In this composition, he made use of the whole tone scale and used it as a descriptive device.