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Hatinggabi is one of the most memorable of Filipino kundiman, penned by Prof. Antonio Molina. Audio from a vintage 10 inch vinyl phonograph record ("Kundiman, Love Songs of the Philippines, The Villar Symphonette under the direction of Leopoldo Silos." Villar Records. Undated). =========== Antonio Molina 1894-1980 Antonio J. Molina was a National Artist of the Philippines. A musical great, he was considered the peer of two other great Filipino musicians Nicanor Abelardo and Francisco Santiago. His talent was prodigious: he was the first violincellist of pre-war times, a composer, conductor, pedagogue, and music administrator. Molina was born into a musical family Quiapo, Manila on 26 December 1894. His father Juan Molina was an influential government official who also founded the Molina Orchestra. His first formal music lessons was violin and solfeggio under Celestino de Vera, then a member of his father's orchestra. He attended the Escuela Catolica de Nuestra Padre Jesus Nazareno in Quiapo. He continued high school and college at San Juan De Letran where he obtained abachelor of arts degree in 1909. Complying with his father's wishes he pursued a Bachelor of Laws initially at the UST. He transferred in his second year of law studies to the Escuela de Derecho de Manila, where he finished his studies. He attained a teacher's diploma in violincello at the UP Conservatory of Music in 1923. His first composition was "Matinal" in 1912 and it is preserved in an unpublished ...