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[2] [3] He, along with Phạm Duy and Trịnh Công Sơn, is widely considered one of the three most salient figures of 20th-century (non-classical) Vietnamese music. [4] Văn Cao was also a notable poet and a painter. In 1996, he was posthumously awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for Music. [5]
"Tiến Quân Ca" (lit. "The Song of the Marching Troops") is the national anthem of Vietnam.The march was written and composed by Văn Cao in 1944, and was adopted as the national anthem of North Vietnam in 1946 (as per the 1946 constitution) and subsequently the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 following the reunification of Vietnam.
In 1948, the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam adopted the song as its national anthem. The song was later modified, changing its name to Tiếng Gọi Công Dân ( Call to the Citizens ) or Công Dân Hành Khúc ( March of the Citizens ), and became the official national anthem of South Vietnam . [ 2 ]
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
Together, they created a "Scholar Club" consisted of Vietnamese patriotic students. In 1939, Lưu Hữu Phước compose the music of La Marche des Étudiants with the French lyrics by Mai Văn Bộ. The song was quickly approved as the anthem of Scholar Club. [2] The song was later known as Tiếng gọi thanh niên (Call of the Youths).
Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was one of Vietnam's most prolific songwriters with a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one thousand songs to his credit, [1] he is widely considered one of the three most salient and influential figures of modern Vietnamese music, along with ...
The anthem received positive feedback from the local members and the central body of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. COSVN Secretary Phạm Hùng was very satisfied with the song's quality; when the song was tested for the first time he jubilantly stood up and said: "Great job! Very good song! Congratulation and thanks, comrades ...
In the 1945 with the creation of the short-life Empire of Vietnam, prime minister Trần Trọng Kim selected "Đăng đàn cung" as Vietnam's national anthem. However, the Empire was dissolved soon after. Nowadays, this piece of music is still played in Vietnam. It is used frequently in the tourist industry as a sampler of traditional ...