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 .
Alongside Văn Cao and Trinh Cong Son, he is one of the three most important representatives of modern Vietnamese music and has composed over 1000 songs.
Life
Phạm Duy Cẩn was born the son of the journalist and writer Phạm Duy Tốn , who was one of the founders of the Tonkin Free School . His older brother, Phạm Duy Khiêm , became a professor and ambassador of South Vietnam in France. He was also active as a writer in French. After the early death of the father, Trần Trọng Kim , who later became Prime Minister of Vietnam, took care of his sons for a time.
Phạm Duy, who was very interested in technology, attended Thang Long High School, College of Arts, and Ky Nghe Thuc Hanh Vocational College. At first he was self-taught with music. He first became the singer of the group Duc Huy, with whom he performed in 1943 and 1944. In 1951 he was offered admission to the Communist Party, combined with an award and a trip to Moscow. His then pregnant wife, the singer and actress Thái Hằng , would have had to stay behind in Vietnam. Even worse, however, seemed to him the demand to publicly distance oneself from his then popular song Bên Cầu Biên Giới . He therefore declined the award with thanks, which resulted in significant restrictions in his further work.
From 1954 to 1955 he studied music in France, but without being enrolled at the Institut de Musicologie in Paris .
After his time with the Viet Minh and the prohibition of his works in the communist-ruled areas, he moved to Saigon ; after its fall, he emigrated with his family to Midway City in California in 1975 . His works were still banned in reunified Vietnam. It was only after he announced in 2005 that he would be moving to Vietnam with his son, the singer Duy Quang , that the restrictions on his music were relaxed and some of his songs were distributed in Vietnam. His move was judged very ambiguously.
Works
Phạm Duy wrote, among other things, folk songs such as For example, on his album Folk Songs of Vietnam, recorded in 1968, pacifist songs, spiritual chants and songs dealing with the fate of refugees, exiles and prisoners can be heard. In addition, numerous love songs such as B. Do Ai , which can be heard in the film Three Seasons .
In addition to four volumes of memoirs, of which only the first three were published as books, he also wrote an introduction to Vietnamese folk music under the title The Musics of Vietnam (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1977).
literature
- Eric Henry, Pham Duy and Modern Vietnamese History , in: Southeast Review of Asian Studies XXVII, 2005 ( online ).
Web links
- Homepage of Pham Duy
- Literature by and about Phạm Duy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Pham Duy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anh Do: Pham Duy dies at 91; Vietnam's most prolific songwriter , Los Angeles Times. January 28, 2013.
- ^ Jan Dodd and Mark Lewis, Vietnam , Ostfildern (DuMont) 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6148-3 , p. 135
- ↑ Lasse Heerten, Léopold Sédar Senghor as the subject of the “dialectic of colonialism”. A thinker of Africa and the imperial metropolis , in: Samples. Vienna Journal for Critical African Studies No. 15/2008, Volume 8, pp. 87–116, here p. 93 - online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 241 kB)
- ↑ http://de.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090430092225AAF95oF
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Phạm Duy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Phạm Duy Cẩn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanoi |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 2013 |
| Place of death | Ho Chi Minh City |