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Maceda, José (b. January 31, 1917, Manila – d. May 5, 2004, Quezon City). Philippine composer of interdisciplinary works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as an ethnomusicologist.

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. Later he studied in the USA, including private piano studies with E. Robert Schmitz in San Francisco from 1946–49 and musicology studies at Queens College and Columbia University from 1950–52. He then studied anthropology at the University of Chicago and ethnomusicology at Indiana University in 1957–58 and the University of California at Los Angeles from 1961–63, where he earned his PhD. He also worked with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris in 1958.

Achievements

Among his many honors are grants from the Guggenheim (1957–58, for study in the USA) and Rockefeller (1968, Write short biography!