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composer

Lưu Hữu Phước was a Cochin-Chinese Vietnamese composer, a member of the National Assembly, and Chairman of the Committee of Culture and Education of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Career

His Thanh niên hành khúc was the base of the 1948–1975 South Vietnamese National Anthem.

Achievements

  • He was a posthumous recipient of the Hồ Chí Minh Prize in 1996.

Membership

He was originally a medical student, the composing member of a trio with lyricists Mai Văn Bộ, later ambassador, and Nguyễn Thành Nguyên, later a dentist in California, composing patriotric songs in 1943.