Văn Cao

In 1956, after the Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair, a movement for political and cultural freedom, he had to stop composing. Most of his songs, except "Tiến Quân Ca", "Làng Tôi", "Tiến Về Hà Nội" and "Trường Ca Sông Lô" were prohibited in North Vietnam. In 1987, his songs were once again authorized in Vietnam.

In 1991, the American composer Robert Ashley composed the solo piano piece Văn Cao's Meditation, which is based on the image of Văn Cao playing his piano.

• Songs
  • "Bài ca Chiến sĩ Hải quân" (1945) ("Song for marines")
  • "Bắc Sơn" (1945) ("Bac-Son - a guerrilla center during the war with French colonialism")
  • "Bến xuân" (music by Văn Cao, words written together with Phạm Duy) (1942)
  • "Đàn chim Việt"
  • "Buồn tàn thu" (1939, the first song of Văn Cao)
  • "Chiến sĩ Việt Nam" (1945) ("Vietnamese soldiers")
  • "Cung đàn xưa" ("Melody of the past")
  • "Đêm sơn cước" ("A night in the mountain")
  • "Gò Đống Đa" (1942) ("Dong-Da Hillock")
  • "Hò kéo gỗ Bạch Đằng Giang" (1941)
  • "Làng tôi" (1947) ("My Village")
  • "Không quân Việt Nam" (1945) ("Vietnamese air force")
  • "Ngày mai" ("Tomorrow")
  • "Ngày mùa" (1948) ("Harvest")
  • "Suối mơ" ("Dream stream")
  • "Thăng Long hành khúc ca"
  • "Thiên Thai" (1941) ("paradise")
  • "Thu cô liêu"
  • "Tiến về Hà Nội"
  • "Tiến Quân Ca" (1944)
  • "Tình ca Trung du"
  • "Trương Chi" (1943)
  • "Trường ca sông Lô" (1947) ("Lo river epic")
  • "Mùa xuân đầu tiên" (1975) ("First Spring")
  • "Mùa xuân đầu tiên" (1976) ("First Spring")
• "'Poems"'
  • "Anh có nghe không" ("Do you hear?". Published in "Giai phẩm" Spring (Feb) 1956)
  • "Những ngày báo hiệu mùa xuân" ("Days with signs of a spring to come")
  • "Lá" (1988) ("Leaves")

• Biography of Văn Cao
• Van Cao - Composer of Patriotism and Love