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Biography
Lưu Hữu Phước (12 September 1921 in Cần Thơ, Cochinchina – 16 June 1989 in Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam) was a 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
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 patriotic songs in 1943. He was a posthumous recipient of the Hồ Chí Minh Prize in 1996. His "Thanh niên hành khúc" was the base of the 1948–1975 South Vietnamese national anthem, though this was before he became a Communist.
After becoming a Communist, Lưu wrote both the lyrics and composed the music to "Liberate the South" in 1969.
Works
- Opera – Bông Sen (Lotus) 1968
- "A Call to Youth"
- "Liberate the South" (1969)