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Nguyen Thien Dao

Nguyễn Thiên Đạo (3 July 1940 – 20 November 2015) was a Vietnamese-French composer who worked in contemporary classical music. He was born in Hanoi, French Indochina, and came to France in 1953,

Nguyễn Thiên Đạo (3 July 1940 – 20 November 2015) was a Vietnamese-French composer who worked in contemporary classical music. He was born in Hanoi, French Indochina, and came to France in 1953, where he studied composition with Olivier Messiaen. He lived in Paris, France. In 1974 he received the Prix Olivier Messiaen for composition awarded by the Fondation Erasmus in the Netherlands and the Prix André Caplet (Académie des Beaux-Arts) in 1984. He died in Paris on 20 November 2015 at the age of 75. Works * Tuyn Lua for chamber ensemble, Festival de Royan 1969. * Koskom for large orchestra, Radio France 1971 * Ba Me Vietnam, for contrabass and twenty instruments, Festival de La Rochelle, 1972 * Mỵ Châu Trọng Thuỷ Opera in Vietnamese - premiere at the Opéra de Paris (Salle Favart), 1979. * Concerto pour piano et orchestre, Rencontres de Metz, 1984 * Symphonie pour pouvoir with Orchestre National de France at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, 1989 * Concerto 1789 (pour sextuor à cordes et orchestre), with the Orchestre National de Lille at the Palais des Congrès of Lille. * Les enfants d’Izieu opéra-oratorio Festival d’Avignon 1994 * Hoa Tâu Hanoi Opera 1995 * Khai Nhac Hanoi Opera 1997

Era
Post-War
Lived
1940–2015
From
France
Born in
Hanoi · died 15th arrondissement of Paris
Known as
composer, musician

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.