Music collection of musician Hoang Van honored as World Documentary Heritage

At 11:00 p.m. on April 10, 2025 (4:00 a.m. on April 11, 2025 Vietnam time) in Paris, France, the UNESCO Executive Board unanimously agreed to inscribe the "Collection of Musician Hoang Van" of Vietnam into the Memory of the World Catalogue.

This is the first time a Vietnamese individual's music collection has been recognized as a World Documentary Heritage.

According to the assessment of the International Advisory Council of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program, Vietnam's dossier fully meets international criteria with outstanding values.

The collection is well preserved and highly accessible through a multilingual digital platform (https://hoangvan.org), contributing to spreading Vietnamese cultural values ​​to the international community.

With a harmonious combination of European classical music and folk music, the works of musician Hoang Van not only have artistic value but are also valuable documents serving the research of Vietnamese culture, society and music history./.

(Vietnam News Agency/Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/bo-suu-tap-am-nhac-cua-nhac-sy-hoang-van-duoc-vinh-danh-di-san-tu-lieu-the-gioi-post1027183.vnp