Musician Hong Dang – the author of the song “Milk flower” passed away

Musician Hong Dang passed away on the morning of March 21, at the age of 86.

Musician Hong Dang was born in 1936 in Yen Thanh, Nghe An; took the first composition class of the Vietnamese music school; Former Deputy General Secretary of the Vietnam Musicians Association, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Music and Music World.

He is the first musician admitted to the Vietnam Cinema Association, member of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam – Japan Cultural Exchange Association, member of the National Committee for the Decade of International Cultural Development.

He was awarded the State Prize in 2001, the Bui Xuan Phai Prize for the love of Hanoi in 2021.

He has composed more than 700 works, covering many genres: songs, choirs, scenes, instrumentals, soundtracks, stage music…

In particular, he composed music used for more than 70 films, including famous soundtrack songs such as:

Flower milk (Hanoi bird nest season), Floating (Singing life), The sea sings this afternoon (many movies about the sea), Nostalgia for the ocean night (Salt grains of the sea), The sea and the girl I don’t know (Little stars), Green space (Sky)…

He is credited with initiating Half a century of Vietnamese music and he himself was honored in Musical path year 2000.