Phạm Duy

Phạm Duy ( born October 5, 1921 in Hà Nội, † January 27, 2013 in Ho Chi Minh City) was a Vietnamese composer, singer and author.

He is next to Van Cao and Trinh Cong Son as one of the three most important representatives of modern Vietnamese music and has over 1000 songs composed.

Life

Phạm Duy CAN was born the son of the journalist and writer Phạm Duy tone, which was one of the founders of the Tonkin Free School. His older brother, Phạm Duy Khiêm, was professor and ambassador of South Vietnam in France. He also worked as a writer in French. After the early death of his father took care temporarily Trần Trọng Kim, who later became Prime Minister of Vietnam, to his sons.

Phạm Duy, who was technically very interested, visited the Thang Long High School, the College of Arts and Ky Nghe Thuc Hanh Vocational College. With the music he worked on autodidact. He was first singer of Duc Huy, with which he appeared in 1943 and 1944. 1951, he was recording in the Communist Party, connected with an award and a trip to Moscow, plotted. His then pregnant wife, the singer and actress Thái slope would, however, must remain in Vietnam. Even worse, however, appeared to him the requirement to publicly distance himself from his then popular song Ben Cầu Bien Gioi. He therefore rejected the award with thanks, which drew significant limitations in its further work by itself.

From 1954 to 1955 he studied music in France without, however, be enrolled at the Institut de Musicologie in Paris.

After his time with the Viet Minh and the banning of his works in the Communist-ruled areas, he moved to Saigon; after its fall he emigrated in 1975 with his family to Midway City, California from. In reunified Vietnam, his works were still banned. Only after 2005 of his announcement that he would retire with his son, the singer Duy Quang, Vietnam, the requirements were eased over his music and some of his songs was used in Vietnam. His move was judged rather ambiguous.

Works

Phạm Duy wrote, among other folk songs, as recorded on his 1968 album Folk Songs of eg Vietnam can be heard, also pacifist songs, spiritual songs and songs that deal with the fate of refugees, exiles and prisoners. In addition, numerous love songs such as Do Ai, which can be heard in the film Three Seasons emerged.

In addition to four volumes of memoirs, of which only the first three books as were published, he also wrote an introduction to the Vietnamese folk music under the title The Musics of Vietnam ( Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1977).