Education
He also studied harmony and orchestration under Vittorio Giannini and took classes at Juilliard in 1947.
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He also studied harmony and orchestration under Vittorio Giannini and took classes at Juilliard in 1947.
San Pedro came from a family with musical roots and he began his career early. By then, he had already composed songs, hymns and two complete masses for voices and orchestra. After studying with several prominent musicians in the Philippines, he took advanced composition training with Bernard Wagenaar of the Netherlands.
His other vocation was teaching.
He has taught at the Ateneo de Manila University, virtually all the major music conservatories in Manila, and at the College of Music of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, where he retired as a full professor in 1978. He later received the title Professor Emeritus from the University in 1979.
On May 9, 1991, President Corazon C. Aquino proclaimed San Pedro a of the Philippines for Music. San Pedro died of cardiac arrest on March 31, 2002 in Quezon City, at the age of 89.
He is buried in his hometown of Angono, Rizal.
He also became a faculty member of the Centro Escolar University Conservatory of Music in Manila.
