Nguyễn Văn Quỳ


Nguyen Van Quy is a Vietnamese composer and musician. He started as composer under the artist name Đỗ Quyên, and was later given the nicknames "Quỳ Sonate" and "Vietnamese Beethoven". He is known for having written nine sonatas for violin and piano, but also for several songs. He is a member of the French music copyright association.

Biography

Nguyen Van Quy was born in Hanoi and has revealed musical talent since childhood. His melodies are inspired by Vietnamese traditional music as well as French Romanticism. Nguyen Van Quy graduated from the French Ecole Universelle music course by mail correspondence in 1954. He was the student of the French composer and pianist Adolphe Borchard.
After the Geneva Agreements, he remained music teacher at Hanoi National University of Pedagogy from 1956 to 1978. So far, he has completed nine sonatas for violin and piano and many songs. He had continuous links with French musical circles where he was known as the "Vietnamese Beethoven". He was awarded the second prize of the Vietnam Musician Association for the Sonata No. 4 and the Sonata No. 8. In 2009, he was awarded the Cultural Heritage Patrimoenia Award at the Swiss embassy in Hanoi.
Currently, he lives with his family in Hanoi. His is married to Do Thi Nam Kim and has one son.

Works

Here is the list of his musical works according to a biography written in 2011.