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Trần Văn Khê (24 July 1921 - 24 June 2015) was a Vietnamese musicologist, academic, writer, teacher and performer of traditional music. He was father of the musician ethnomusicologist . His ''La musique viêtnamienne traditionnelle'' (Paris, 1962) was for many years a standard text of Vietnamese musicology.
He was director of research at 'Tran Van Khe Library' opens in HCMC — TalkVietnam
23 Aug 2012
Trần Văn Khê (24 July 1921 - 24 June 2015) was a Vietnamese musicologist, academic, writer, teacher and performer of traditional music. He was father of the musician ethnomusicologist . His ''La musique viêtnamienne traditionnelle'' (Paris, 1962) was for many years a standard text of Vietnamese musicology.
He was director of research at CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
and professor at the Sorbonne, and in 2008 named a Honorary Member of the International Music Council of UNESCO where he is coordinator of the project "The Universe of Music, A History".23 Aug 2012
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