[1] He started as composer under the artist name Đỗ Quyên, and was later given the nicknames "Quỳ Sonate" and "Vietnamese Beethoven".

He was a member of the French music copyright association (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique: SACEM).

Nguyen Van Quy was born in Hanoi and has revealed musical talent since childhood.

Nguyen Van Quy graduated from the French Ecole Universelle music course by mail correspondence in 1954.

[3] After the Geneva Agreements, he remained music teacher at Hanoi National University of Education (Trường Đại học Sư Phạm Hà Nội) from 1956 to 1978.