Biography

Hoàng Vân (24 July 1930, Hanoi – 4 February 2018) was a Vietnamese songwriter and composer. His birth name is Lê Văn Ngọ. He is best known as a composer during the two Indochina wars. He was a soldier in the Dien Bien Phu battle, before being sent for training in European classical music at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing by the end of the first Indochina war. After his return to Vietnam, Hoàng Vân became the conductor of the Radio Orchestra (Voice of Vietnam), as well as a lecturer 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 V...Read More