Hoàng Vân (composer)

Lê Văn Ngọ, (24 July 1930, Hanoi – 4 February 2018) known as Hoàng Vân, is a Vietnamese songwriter and composer. He was a recipient of the Hồ Chí Minh Prize in 2000. Life Born on 24 July 1930 in Hanoi, Ngọ was born into a Confucian family. Both his grandfather and father were Confucian scholars. He is best known as a composer of the two Indochina wars. He was a soldier in Dien Bien Phu before being sent to train in European classical music at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the end of the war. After his return to Vietnam, he was the conductor of the Radio Orchestra (Voice of Vietnam), as well as lecturing at the composition faculty of the Ha Noi Conservatory of Music (now the Vietnam National Academy of Music) until 1989. He was also a member of the Vietnam Musicians Association and worked there until 1996. Hoàng Vân was known by the public through his songs, but he also composed symphonies (notably Thành Đồng Tổ quốc, The Bronze Citadel of my Fatherland), in 1960), choirs, instrumental ensemble, music for films, and plays. Works Songs Hoàng Vân is one of the most famous composers of Vietnamese songs from the 1960s, and, as of the early 21st century, his songs remai