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Đặng Hữu Phúc

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Đặng Hữu Phúc (born June 4, 1953) is a Vietnamese pianist and composer best known for his film scores. A graduate of the Hanoi Conservatory, he has penned over 60 works, primarily for film and theatre. In 2001 he won the Vietnam National Film Award Best Music for The Season of Guavas. Then he subsequently won the Best Music prize in 2005 at the 8th Shanghai International Film Festival for his work on Hồ Quang Minh’s film Thời xa vắng (“A Far Time Past”) based on the novel of the same name by Lê Lựu. Đặng is best known as a composer of symphonies and orchestral music, combining this traditional European style of music with elements of traditional Vietnamese music, such as Nhạc dân tộc cải biên. He is also noted in Vietnam for his instrumental music such as piano sonatas. Works Vocal works Đặng Hữu Phúc has written several works for choir and orchestra. His choral symphony to poems of Nguyễn Đình Thi (1973) was performed at the Hanoi Opera House when the composer was only 20 years old. In 2004 10 pieces for a cappella choir (“10 bài cho hợp xướng không nhạc đệm”) premiered, again at the Hanoi Opera House. Phúc is also known for classical songs. In 1974 he wrote Ba bức tranh (“Three P

Dang Ngoc Long

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Dang Ngoc Long is a Vietnamese concert guitarist, composer and actor. He studied classical guitar in Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin. Today he lives in Berlin and is the art director of the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin and director of the music school Berlin Gesundbrunnen. Biography From 1985 to 1990 he completed his classical guitar studies with Inge Wilczok at the “Hanns Eisler” musical academy in Berlin. From 1990 to 1993 he received a scholarship for concert master studies. Dang Ngoc Long received a special award at the international guitar competition (1987-Esztergom-Hungary). He gave concerts in Hungary, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, France, Austria, among others. Dang Ngoc Long was awarded the title of an honorary professor of the University of Kirgysia. He is director of the music school Berlin Gesundbrunnen. He is also art director of the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin. He composed many works for guitar solo, duo, trio, and quartet: “Tay Nguyen Gebirge”, Erinnerung, Prelude No. 1, Mienman, Beo dat may troi – Vietnam Folk Song, Fantasie in G-Dur, Kreislauf, Gian ma thuong, Prelude No. 4. Many pieces were chosen as test pi

Đỗ Nhuận

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Đỗ Nhuận (December 10, 1922 in Hải Dương – May 18, 1991 in Hà Nội) was a Vietnamese classical composer. He is known for the first homegrown Vietnamese opera - Cô Sao “Miss Sao.” This and other more-or-less revolutionary themed musicals were premiered by the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB) at the Grand Opera House. In 1996, he was posthumously awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for music. Don’t confuse with an earlier Đỗ Nhuận (born 1440), a high ranking politician, a notable poet, member of - a famous association of 28 poets under the command of King Lê Thánh Tông. Early years Unlike most of the musicians at that time who followed the romantic orientation, Đỗ Nhuận entered the music industry with patriotic songs. In 1939, at the age of 17, he had his first work Trưng Vương (Trưng sisters). During 1940 – 1941, he focused on completing the opera Nguyễn Trãi – Phi Khanh (Nguyễn Trãi and his father) and many other compositions. His works performed have awakened the patriotism of Vietnamese people. Because of those songs and other activities assigned by the Việt Minh front, such as printing and distributing propaganda leaflets for the revolution, mobilizing students and young people

Hoàng Vân (composer)

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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

Lưu Hữu Phước

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Lưu Hữu Phước (12 September 1921 – 8 June 1989) was a Vietnamese composer, a member of the National Assembly, and Chairman of the Committee of Culture and Education of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Phước, together with Mai Văn Bộ and Huỳnh Văn Tiểng, were the members of the famous composer trio Hoàng–Mai–Lưu, known with the common pseudonym Huỳnh Minh Siêng. He was most notably the author of two South Vietnamese national anthems: Giải phóng miền Nam (Liberate the South) of the Việt Cộng-led Provisional Revolutionary Government and Tiếng gọi thanh niên (March of the Youths), whose lyrics was later changed to become Tiếng gọi công dân (March of the Citizens) and used as anthem by the State of Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam despite his protest. Youth and pre-1945 activities Phước was born on 12 September 1921 in district Ô Môn, province Cần Thơ (now belongs to Cần Thơ city). He accessed music literature during his childhood and managed to practice several instruments including Đàn nguyệt, mandolin, and guitar. Phước attended the Petrus Ký highschool in Saigon (now the Lê Hồng Phong High School for the Gifted) in about 1935. He met Mai Văn Bộ and Huỳn

Nguyễn Đình Thi

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Nguyễn Đình Thi (20 December 1924 – 18 April 2003) was a famous Vietnamese writer, poet and composer, most notable for writing , the song that became the official daily theme tune of the Voice of Vietnam. Biography He was born on 20 December 1924, in Luang Prabang, Laos. His home, Vũ Thạch Village, is now known as Bà Triệu street, Tràng Tiền ward, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi, Vietnam. His father was an official in the Indochina Post Office, who moved to Laos to work. He came back to Vietnam in 1931, to study in Haiphong City and joined the Youth Rescue nation in 1941. He belonged to the generation of artists who were involved in the French defeat in the 1950s. He wrote essays on philosophy, poetry, music and drama. After the August Revolution (1945), Nguyễn Đình Thi became the general secretary of the national culture association. From 1958 to 1989 he was secretary of the Vietnamese Writers association. From 1995, he was chairman of the Vietnam Union of Literature and Art Association. In 1996, he received the Ho Chi Minh Prize for literature. He died on 18 April 2003, in Hanoi. In 1951 he met the French poet Madeleine Riffaud in Berlin at an international meeting of youth for peace.

P. Q. Phan

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P. Q. Phan (), (born 1962 in Da Nang, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese composer of contemporary classical music living in the United States. He became interested in music while studying architecture in 1978 and taught himself to play the piano, compose, and orchestrate. In 1982, he immigrated to the United States and began his formal musical training. Early life and training Phan holds a B.M. from the University of Southern California (1987), and an M.M. (1989), M.A. (1993), and D.M.A. (1993) from the University of Michigan. He has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and Cleveland State University. He is currently a professor of composition at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington. Career Phan’s music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, in Europe (England, France, Austria, Italy, Holland, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, and Denmark), Israel, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong(China), Singapore, Korea, and Japan. He has received numerous commissions, including from the Kronos Quartet, the American Composers Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Greater East Lans

Phạm Duy

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Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was a Vietnamese songwriter. With more than one thousand songs to his credit, he is widely considered one of the three most salient and influential figures of modern Vietnamese music, along with Văn Cao and Trịnh Công Sơn. His entire body of work was banned in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and subsequently in unified Vietnam for more than 30 years. Upon his repatriation in 2005, the government began to ease restrictions on some of his work. Biography Phạm Duy was born as Phạm Duy Cẩn, on 5 October 1921, in his house at the Hàng Thùng Street of Hanoi City, Tonkin, French Indochina. His father Phạm Duy Tốn was a progressive journalist and writer, and one of the earliest writers of European-style short stories. Phạm Duy Tốn was also one of the founders of the Tonkin Free School movement. Phạm Duy’s father died when he was two, and he was raised largely by his older brother Phạm Duy Khiêm, whom he described as a strict and tyrannical figure. Phạm Duy Khiêm later became a professor and South Vietnam’s ambassador to France, as well as a Francophone writer. He attended Thăng Long Primary School where his teachers included Trần Trọng Kim a