Nguyen Thien Dao

Nguyễn Thiện Đạo (3 July 1940 – 20 November 2015) was a Vietnamese-French composer who worked in contemporary classical music.

He was born in Hanoi, French Indochina, and came to France in 1953, where he studied composition with Olivier Messiaen.

[1] He lived in Paris, France.

In 1974 he received the Prix Olivier Messiaen for composition awarded by the Fondation Erasmus in the Netherlands and the Prix André Caplet (Académie des Beaux-Arts) in 1984.

[2][3][4] He died in Paris on 20 November 2015 at the age of 75.