Location: Julian Felipe Boulevard cor. Miranda Street, Cavite City, Cavite
Category: Personages
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1955
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
HERE IN THE CITY OF CAVITE WAS BORN
ON 28 JANUARY, 1861
JULIAN FELIPE
PATRIOT, COMPOSER AND PROFESSOR OF MUSIC. SON OF JUSTO FELIPE AND VICTORIA REYES. ARRESTED WITH THE THIRTEEN MARTYRS OF CAVITE AND IMPRISONED IN FORT SAN FELIPE, SEPTERMBER, 1896. COMPOSED THE “PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ANTHEM,” 1898. IMPRISONED IN FORT SANTIAGO BY THE AMERICANS, 1899. TAUGHT PIANO LESSONS, 1903–1942. DIED IN SAMPALOC, MANILA, 2 OCTOBER, 1944.
