# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nguyen-thien-dao
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:58:19.684Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nguyen-thien-dao"
name: "Nguyen-Thien Dao"
slug: "nguyen-thien-dao"
description: "Nguyễn Thiên Đạo 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. 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 in 1984. He died in Paris on 20 November 2015 at the age of 75."
tagline: "French composer of Vietnamese family origin (1940-2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-12-17"
deathDate: "2015-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.138661333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nguyenthiendao.com"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "نجوين ثين داو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Thien_Dao"
    title: "Nguyen Thien Dao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Thien_Dao"
    title: "Nguyen Thien Dao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Thien_Dao"
    title: "Nguyen Thien Dao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Thien_Dao"
    title: "Nguyen Thien Dao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Thi%E1%BB%87n_%C4%90%E1%BA%A1o"
    title: "Nguyễn Thiện Đạo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump