Composer Van Giang

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Van Giang

Living place: Melbourne

Birthday: 12-5-1924

Global rank: #84002

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Who is Composer Van Giang?
Composer Van Giang composes a variety of music genres, when he writes love songs he often signs Thong Dat. Van Giang also has another pseudonym, Nguyen Thong. In the field of love songs, musician Van Giang wrote the song "Ai's on the Tuong River" in 1949, which became too popular at that time. The song was voted the best song by Radio Phap A listeners in 1949. In the epic segment, musician Van Giang composed many songs, of which outstanding works were: Vietnamese Army , Thuc Quan, Quan Hanh Ca, Passing the Pass, Dancing Fire, Me Linh Night...
When composing Buddhist music, musician Van Giang often signs the pseudonym Nguyen Thong under the manuscript. In the genre of Buddhist music, Van Giang composed quite a lot and has many songs that are regularly sung in recitation sessions at temples from Hue to Saigon. Some typical Buddhist songs: Tu Dam in my hometown, Happy Birthday, Ca Pi La Ve, Impermanence, Flowers in a blue shirt...
Songwriter Van Giang loves to explore and discover music. Vietnamese traditional music. In 1956, he found a method of notation for traditional musicians. He also founded the Viet Thanh ancient metal band. One of the first bands in Vietnam operating in the form of neo-classical harmony with musical instruments such as Tranh, Pi, Nhi Huyen, Nhi Ho, Dan Nguyet, etc., in harmony with the piano, violin, and great organ. ...
Musician Van Giang has released the unique work "Who brought the flute to the river", a great concert piece, duration of 60 minutes, performed by traditional musicians. He has also authored many music textbooks, completing a 350-page book The Technique of Harmony, which is used as a teaching material for music in schools.
He also has many compositions written for children. He released a music collection titled "Sing that" including 10 children's songs such as: Going to school, Criticizing bad games, Cat and mouse, Quang Trung epic, Mid-Autumn Moon, Play slingshot, Greed for bait, Le Lai's shining example, Happy Spring and Goodbye.
In 1969, musician Van Giang decided to settle in Saigon. Here, he taught music for the Saigon National School of Music, and at the same time participated in music activities at radio and television stations and composed arrangements for Asia record label, Song Nhac.
Musician Van Giang was awarded a gold medal at the National Literature and Art Prize in 1970, awarded by the President of the Republic of Vietnam, for his work Quintet for Flute and Strings.
Also in 1970, Van Giang was appointed to the position of Artistic Director of the Vietnam Art Troupe to attend the Expo 70 International Fair in Osaka, Japan.
On May 20, 1982, musician Van Giang moved to Australia to settle down. Here, he continued his musical path, composing and publishing many music books written in Vietnamese and English, music theory books such as how to use chords, self-taught Spanish, harmonies, composing, learning singing, learning the piano... Van Giang also composed many love songs that were collected into several volumes, such as 12 love songs (Volume I), 12 Love songs (Volume II).
Musician Van Giang died on May 9, 2013, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
 
 

Young / Before famous

In his youth, Van taught music in Hue, then he went to Saigon to take the baccalaureate exam and graduated with a bachelor's degree here.
After passing the English exam at the Vietnam American Association, Van Giang was accepted and he went to the United States. studied music in Hawaii and Bloomington. After graduating with distinction, he was awarded a scholarship to continue his graduate studies in music. After that, Van Giang returned home and was nominated to be the director of the Hue National School of Music.

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Van Giang was born into a middle-class family in Hue. Van Giang's grandfather was also a very good classical musician, so it seems that Van Giang inherited the blood of art from his grandfather.
He married his wife with the legal name Tam Dat. In 1982, he and his family immigrated to Australia. In 2013, musician Van Giang died and not long after from grief his wife also passed away after a heart attack.

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When was Composer Van Giang born?
Van Giang was born in 12-5-1924, death day is 09/05/2013, at the age of 89.
Where is Composer Van Giang's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Van Giang was born in Thua Thien Hue, of Vietnam. Mr working and living in Melbourne, of Australia. Mr, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Van Giang's global rank is 84002 and whose rank is 961 in list of famous Composer.
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Events in 1924 and 12-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Van Giang

  • Death of Lenin; Stalin wins power struggle, rules as Soviet dictator until death in 1953.
  • Italian Fascists murder Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti.
  • Ottoman empire (founded 1290) ends when Turkish president Mustafa Kemal ends the caliphate.

Birthday Van Giang (12-5) in history

  • Day 12-5 year 1870: Manitoba became a province of Canada.
  • Day 12-5 year 1932: The body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's kidnapped baby was found.
  • Day 12-5 year 1937: Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
  • Day 12-5 year 1943: Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.
  • Day 12-5 year 1949: The Soviet blockade that prompted the Berlin airlift was ended.
  • Day 12-5 year 1970: Harry A. Blackmun was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.
  • Day 12-5 year 2002: Former president Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president (in or out of office) to visit Fidel Castro's Cuba.
  • Day 12-5 year 2008: An estimated 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan Provinces in western China and as many as 68,000 people were killed.
  • Day 12-5 year 2012: The 2012 World Expo began in Yeosu, South Korea.
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