Professor Tran Van Khe

Tran Van Khe

Living place: Ho Chi Minh

Birthday: 24-7-1921

Population of Vietnam 1921: 15,58 millions

Global rank: #92473

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Who is Professor Tran Van Khe?
Professor Tran Van Khe is well known in the field of Vietnamese traditional music and culture research. He was the first Vietnamese to obtain a doctorate in musicology in France. He was a professor at the Sorbonne University in France and is also an honorary member of the International Music Council, UNESCO.
In 1940-1941, Professor Tran Van Khe passed the first baccalaureate and was the second valedictorian of the High School Truong Vinh Ky . Also during this time, he and musician Luu Huu Phuoc and Vo Van Quan founded the orchestra of school, and the Scola Club Orchestra of the school's student association SAMIPIC. And he was the conductor of those two orchestras.
While studying Medicine in Hanoi, Tran Van Khe was trusted to be the conductor for the school's orchestra. The Orchestra often performs and introduces songs by musician Luu Huu Phuoc.
From 1949, he went to France to study abroad and passed the entrance exam to the School of Politics, Faculty of International Trade in 1951. In 1958, he studied music science and worked on his doctoral thesis under the guidance of Professors Jacques Chailley , Emile Gaspardone and André Schaeffner.
Professor Tran Van Khe passed the Doctorate of Literature in Musicology at the Sorbonne University in June 1958 with the thesis "LaMusique vietnamienne traditionnelle" (Vietnamese traditional music) ).
Since 1963, he has been teaching at the Center for Oriental Music Studies, under the auspices of the Institut de Musicologie de Paris.
In 2006, he returned to Vietnam to settle down and continue his career of researching and teaching ethnic music in Vietnam. During his teaching career, he has traveled to 67 countries around the world to talk and teach about Vietnamese folk music.
In 2009, he was the one who stood up to sign the letter protesting the bauxite project in the Central Highlands.
Professor Tran Van Khe died at 2:00 am on June 24, 2015, at Gia Dinh People's Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City.
Achievement:
  • Ethnic Instrument Prize at the Budapest Youth Festival in 1949.
  • The UNESCO Music Prize at the International Council of Music (Prix UNESCO - CIM de la Musique) 1981.
  • First class Labor Medal awarded by President Tran Duc Luong 1999.
  • Dao Tan Award presented by the Center for Research on Conservation and Promotion of National Culture in 2005.
  • Award Phan Chau Trinh for 2011 research.
  • First class medal of the government of the Republic of Vietnam.
  • Meal of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture in 1991.
  • Awarded admission to the European Academy of Sciences, Literature, and Arts; Academician of the Press in 1993.
  • Meal for National Culture, Ministry of Culture of Vietnam, 1998.
  • Honorary Doctor of Music (Docteur en musique, honoris causa) ) of the University of Ottawa (Canada), 1975.
  • The first class culture of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Vietnam.
He is a member of many national and international associations:
  • Société des Gens de Lettres (France)
  • Society of French writers Société Française d'Ethnomusicologie (France)
  • Société Internationale de Musicologie
  • Society for Ethnomusicology (USA)
  • Société Française de Musicologie (France)
  • International Society for Music Education
  • Member and chair of the scientific committee of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies (Germany)
  • International Council of Traditional Music (Germany) International Council for Traditional Music) Former Vice President (USA) Society for Asian Music (USA)
  • Society for Asian and Pacific Music Music)
  • International Music Council/UNESCO), former executive committee member, former vice-president, current Honorary President (France).
 
 

Young / Before famous

At the age of 6, Tran Van Khe learned to play the stork, zither, and pliers with her. /a> and Nam Khuong.
At the age of 10, Tran Van Khe passed elementary school. He was raised by his fifth aunt and taught Chinese characters with poet Thuong Tan Thi.
In 1934, during elementary school at Vinh Long, Tran Van Khe passed elementary school with part of Han Van. In the whole province, only Tran Van Khe and Nguyen Trong Danh were awarded with Chinese characters. In the same year, he attended Truong Vinh Ky High School, and received a scholarship.
Thanks to passing the first baccalaureate in 1940, the second valedictorian in 1941, he was rewarded by Admiral Jean Decoux to visit Cambodia to see the Golden and Silver Pagodas in Nam Vang, and visit the Emperor Thien De Thich. After returning home, Tran Van Khe was introduced to Dong Ho by teacher Pham Thieu, so he treated him and took him out for a week.
He joined the movement "Propagating the National Language" in Professor Hoang Xuan Han's committee. Specializes in "Disseminating hygiene" by students of Medicine School, and with friends Luu Huu Phuoc.
From 1949, he went to France to study and often travel between France and Vietnam.

Family life info

His father is Tran Quang Chieu (Seven Trieu), his mother is Nguyen Thi Diem, and his grandfather is Tran Quang Diem (Nam Diem), all famous traditional music artists. His maternal grandfather is Nguyen Tri Tuc, also passionate about music, has three children who all follow the music profession.
He is the eldest brother in the family, under me has a younger brother, musician Tran Van Trach, and me. youngest daughter Tran Ngoc Suong, used to be a singer, took the nickname Ngoc Suong, then changed to Thuy Ngoc in the years 1948-50, and now lives in Montreal, Canada.
When he was 9 years old, his mother passed away. A year later, his father passed away. He took the children Tran Van Trach, Tran Ngoc Suong to Ms. Ba Vien's house. Ms. Ba Vien loved it very much and let him and his brother learn martial arts and learn the pliers.
His father, because he loved his wife, passed away in 1931. He has a maternal cousin (son of Nguyen Tri Lac) musician Nguyen My Ca.
In 1943, he married Mrs. Nguyen Thi Suong. The couple gave birth to four children, of which Prof. Dr. Tran Quang Hai is currently a researcher of ethnic music in Paris, Tran Quang Minh, architect, now living in Ho Chi Minh City, Tran Thi Thuy Tien now living in Paris, and Tran Thi Thuy Ngoc, lute musician competed and worked for the Southeast Asian research department of the national center for scientific research in Paris.
In 1949, he immigrated to France but did not live with his wife. Until 1960, Mrs. Suong and Mr. After the divorce his wife also had some love affairs, but most of the end of his life he lived alone.

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Who is Girl friend/ wife/ darling Professor Tran Van Khe?
His great-grandfather was a general. Nguyen Tri Khuong, a famous Cai luong music teacher and composer who also has relatives with him.
Tran Van Trach's younger brother was one of the famous musicians in Saigon before 1975.
His son is Tran Quang Hai, a well-known researcher of Vietnamese folk music.
Singer Bach Yen is Tran Quang Hai's wife, ie his daughter-in-law.

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When was Professor Tran Van Khe born?
Tran Van Khe was born in 24-7-1921, death day is 24/06/2015, at the age of 94.
Where is Professor Tran Van Khe's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Tran Van Khe was born in Tien Giang, of Vietnam. Mr working and living in Ho Chi Minh, of Vietnam. Mr, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. Tran Van Khe's global rank is 92473 and whose rank is 17 in list of famous Professor. Population of Vietnam in 1921 is about 15,58 millions persons.
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Events in 1921 and 24-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Tran Van Khe

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Birthday Tran Van Khe (24-7) in history

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  • Day 24-7 year 1862: Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y.
  • Day 24-7 year 1866: Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
  • Day 24-7 year 1937: Charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped.
  • Day 24-7 year 1974: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
  • Day 24-7 year 2002: Nine coal miners were trapped in a mine in Pennsylvania. All were rescued three days later.
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