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Hilarion Rubio y Francesco (Bacoor, October 21, 1902 - Manila, December 28, 1985) was a Filipino composer, music educator, conductor and clarinetist.

Rubio y Francesco came into contact with the music by his uncle, who played in the harmonica orchestra of Bacoor. His first music lessons in solfège and clarinet he got with Pater Amando Buencamino. At the age of 8, he was included as a clarinetist in the harmonica orchestra of Bacoor. Shortly thereafter, he wrote his first composition "Unang Katas" for this concert orchestra. In his High School time he was a member of several orchestras in the region and also played in the orchestra of the lyrical theater, in the Trozo Harmony Orchestra and the Band Moderna in Tondo. Around 1930 he founded the "Anak Zapote Band" with others. He became conductor of the ROTC Band of the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music until graduating in 1933. Temporary he was also a violinist and pauistist at the university symphony orchestra.

In 1936, he became conductor of the Manila Music School opera and choir leader of Choir Islanders as well as instructor at the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music. For a certain time he was also a teacher at the Buencamino Music Academy, La Concordia College, the College of the Holy Spirit, the Santa Isabel College, the Laperal Music Academy, the Manila Music School, St. Theresa's College and the Valencia Academy of Music. In 1944 and 1945 he was director of the Centro University of Music. During the Second World War he was unable to teach at the high schools in part, but then he gave private lessons and composed a lot. He was also conductor of many military and civil harmony orchestras.

After the war he was conductor of the Manilla Municipal Symphony Orchestra. He reorganized the UNIDA church choir. He became Vice President of the PASAMBAP, the National Federation of Philippine Harmony Orchests. He was a member of the board of the Philippine composers f