Tran Van Khe

Trần Văn Khê was a Vietnamese musicologist, academic, writer, teacher and performer of traditional music. He was father of the musician ethnomusicologist Trần Quang Hải. His La musique viêtnamienne traditionnelle was for many years a standard text of Vietnamese musicology. He was director of research at CNRS and professor at the Sorbonne. In 2008 he was named Honorary Member of the International Music Council of UNESCO, where he coordinated the project "The Universe of Music, A History". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trần_Vă...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)