The Turkey famous composers

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The Turkey famous composers

• Comenius
• 2011-2013

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Ahmet Adnan SAYGUN (1907-1991)

• Ahmed Adnan SAYGUN (7 September 1907 - 6
  January 1991) was a Turkish composer,
  musicologist and writer on music. He was one of
  the most important 20th century Turkish
  Composers. His Works elegently synthesize western
  musical ideals with traditional Turkish folk
  culture. His large and diverse cataloque
  includes five symphonies, five operas, two piano
  concertos, various concertos and a wide range of
  chamber and choral Works. The times (London)
  recalled him as the Grand old man of Turkish
  music. Ahmed Adnan SAYGUN was born in 1907 in
  Izmir. His father who was a mathematics teacher
  and scholar of religions and literature taught
  him English and French as well as the religions
  of the world his early ages. When he was at a
  high school, he continued his music lessons with
  the school lessons as well as from a private
  teacher and through a theory book which he was
  given at an early age. In 1926, only two years
  after his graduation from high school he was
  appointed as a teacher of music at a high school
  in Izmir. In 1928 he was recognized nationally
  and received a grant to study in France by the
  Turkish state. He attended the Schola Cantorum de
  Paris where he studied composition with Vincent
  d'Indy, theory and counterpoint with Eugène
  Borrel, organ with Edouard Souberbielle and
  Gregorian chant with Amédée Gastoué. He was
  further introduced to late-romantic music and
  French impressionism. During this time his
  imagination flourished, enabling him to write his
  first large work for orchestra Divertimento.
  This piece won him an award in 1931 in Paris and
  was performed with great success the same year in
  Poland, Belgium and former USSR. In 1931 he
  returned to Turkey as a music teacher for a new
  establishment found by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk that
  aimed to train music teachers with respect to the
  new law of arts.

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Works

• In 1934 he was appointed as the conductor of the
  prestigious Presidential Symphony Orchestra. That
  very same year Atatürk approached SAYGUN, asking
  him to write the first Turkish opera. As SAYGUN
  was a huge follower of Atatürk he accepted his
  offer with great warmth and in two months time
  finished writing the first Turkish opera, Özsoy.

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Ulvi Cemal ERKIN (1906-1972)

• Born on March 14, 1906 in Istanbul, Ulvi
  Cemal ERKIN graduated from Galatasaray College.
  He passed the examination and was sent to Paris,
  France by the state in 1925. After five years
  there, he studied at the École Normale de
  Musique, where he was a student of Nadia
  Boulanger. Upon his return to Turkey in 1930, he
  became a teacher of harmony and piano at the
  Music Teachers' College in Ankara. During this
  time, he also finished his first compositions,
  which he had begun during his time in Paris. In
  1932, he married the famous pianist Ferhunde
  ERKIN, who was a piano teacher at the same school
  and who had performed nearly thirty piano
  concertos in Turkey for the first time. In 1942,
  he won the Arts Award of the Republic People's
  Party with his piano concerto, He wrote the
  famous Keke Orchestra suite the same year. In an
  interview, he said that Alfred Cartot gave him
  the idea of composing a piano concerto during his
  visit to Turkey. The same piano concerto and Keke
  suite was premiered by the Presidential Synphony
  Orchestra in 1943. On the reguest of Ambassador
  Franz von Papen, the piano concerto was performed
  in Berlin, Germany in 1943. ERKIN was awarded
  with the Palm Acadamique, Lgion dhonneur
  chivalarous and offical degrees, and the Italian
  Republic Medal. He was named a state artist by
  turkey in 1971 and was awarded a medal ofhomor by
  the Sevda Cenap and MusicFoundation in 1991. A
  postage stamp commemorating his life was issued
  by the Turkish postal system in 1985. Up until
  his death, ERKIN taught classes in piano and
  composition at the State Conservatory, which he
  had directed from 19491951.

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Works

• Iki Dans (Two dances, 1930), Konçertino (1932),
  Karagöz (1940), Köçekçe (1943), Birinci Senfoni
  (First symphony, 1944-46), Keman Konçertosu
  (Violin concerto, 1947), Keloglan (1950), Ninni,
  Emprovizasyon ve Zeybek Türküsü (Lullaby,
  improvisation and Zebyek folk song, 1929-1932),
  Keman ve Piyano için Yayli Çalgilar Dörtlüsü
  (String quartet for violin and piano, 1935-36),
  Duyuslar (Impressions, 1937) and Piyano Besli
  (Five pieces for piano, 1943).

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Cemal Resit REY (1904-1985)

• Cemal Resit REY was born in Jerusalem on
  September 25, 1904. His father was governor of
  Jerusalem, and was one of the writers taking part
  in the "Edebiyat-i Cedide" (new literature)
  trend. After the Babiali Raid, REY and his family
  were forced to settle in Paris, where he began
  his musical education at the Paris Conservatory.
  Here, he studied piano with the famous pianist
  Marguerite Long. Forced to leave Paris by WWI, he
  continued his education at the Geneva
  Conservatory. In 1919, he returned to Paris,
  where he continued with Madame Long, as well as
  beginning the study of composition and aesthetics
  of music with Gabriel Fauré, and conducting with
  Henri Defosse. In 1932, he was appointed to the
  Istanbul Conservatory as a piano and composition
  instructor.
• Chosen for membership in the International
  Union of Composers in 1926, REY went on in 1943
  to found the first string orchestra in Istanbul.
  He directed this ensemble, which in 1945 became
  the City Orchestra, and later took the name
  Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, until 1970.
  One of the pioneering founders of the
  Philharmonic association in Istanbul in 1946, REY
  also served as director of and consultant to the
  Ankara and Istanbul Radios from 1938-1949. In
  1985, the year of his death, He was appointed
  "artist professor" at the Mimar Sinan University
  State Conservatory. REY's compositions were
  influenced at first by impressionism, and later
  by westernized forms of Turkish folk music and
  even by mystic and Divan music.

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• 12 Anadolu Türküsü (12 Anatolian folk
  songs,1925), Enstantaneler (1931), Symphonic
  Poem Karagöz (1930), Opera "Cem Sultan" (1923),
  Zeybek (1926), Çelebi (1943), Musical Play Lüküs
  Hayat (1933), Deli-Dolu (1934), 1st Symphony
  (1941), Piyano Concerto (1946) and Variations on
  an Old Istanbul Folk Song (Kâtibim) (1961).

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Hammamizade Ismail DEDE EFENDI(1778-1846)

• Hammamizade Ismail Dede Efendi (1778-1846)
  was a composer of Turkish classical music. He was
  born on 9 January 1778, in Istanbul, Sehzadebasi.
  He started studying music with Mehmed Emin
  Efendi, at the age of eight. He attended rituals
  at Yenikapi Mevlevihanesi, a place of Mevlevi
  gathering. He studied with Ali Nutki Dede and
  learned to play ney, in Yenikapi Mevlevihanesi.
  He became "Dede" in 1799. Dede Efendi's music was
  well appreciated by Sultan Selim III and then he
  performed his works at the palace. He had
  composed hundreds of songs and mevlevi rituals.
  In 1846 he pilgrimaged to Mecca, but in Mina
  contracted cholera and died. His grave is now in
  Mecca.
• Dede Efendi gave lessons in Turkish music to
  Hamparsum Limonciyan who developed the Hamparsum
  notation, the dominant notation for Turkish
  music.
• One of the greatest Turkish composers, he
  has created masterpieces in all forms and modes
  of Turkish music. He has also developed the
  composite musical modes of "sultanî yegâh",
  "nev-eser", "saba-buselik", "hicaz-buselik" and
  "araban kürdî". His greatest works are the seven
  Mevlevi pieces for Samah. More than two hundred
  of his compositions are available today.

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Works

• Rast Semai Yine bir gülnihal aldi bu gönlümü
• Hicaz köçekçe Su karsiki dagda bir yesil çadir
• Rast Kar-i Nev Gözümde daim hayali cânâ
• Hicaz Yürük Semai Yine nes'e-i Muhabbet etti
  dil-ü canim etti seyda
• Hüzzam Yürük Semai Reh-i Askinda edip kaddimi
  kütah gönül
• Ferahfeza Yürük Semai Bu gece ben yine
  bülbülleri hâmûs ettim
• Hicaz Semai Ey büt-i nev-edâ olmusum müptelâ

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Idil BIRET (21 Kasim 1941-..)

• Idil BIRET was born 21 November 1941 in
  Ankara, Turkey is a Turkish concert pianist.
  BIRET began her lessons at the age of five with
  Mithat Fenmen. When she was seven, the Turkish
  parliament enacted a special law which enabled
  her to study abroad, studying at the Paris
  Conservatory in France under the tutelage of
  Nadia Boulanger. She continued her education with
  Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff. From the age of
  16, BIRET played as a soloist with the most
  distinguished orchestras in the world including
  the London Symphony, the Philharmonia, the London
  Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Leningrad
  Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Dresden
  Staatskapelle, the Orchestre de la Suisse
  Romande, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Warsaw
  Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France
  and the Sydney Symphony. She collaborated with
  the eminent conductors such as Hermann Scherchen,
  Pierre Monteux, Erich Leinsdorf, Rudolf Kempe,
  Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Aaron Copland, Rafael
  Frühbeck de Burgos, Charles Mackerras, Jean
  Fournet, Moshe Atzmon, Antoni Wit and Hiroyuki
  Iwaki. BIRET also gave concerts at the festivals
  of Berlin, Montreal, Istanbul, Dubrovnik,
  Montpellier, Nohant, Persepolis, Royan and
  Athens.
• She has been a jury member at several piano
  competitions Van Cliburn (USA), Queen Elisabeth
  Belgium), Montreal (Canada), Liszt (Weimar,
  Germany) and Busoni (Italy).

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Works

• Her numerous recordings (more than 80 today) for
  labels such as EMI, Decca, Atlantic, Finnadar and
  Naxos include the world-premiere recording of
  Liszt's transcriptions of the nine Beethoven
  symphonies (EMI 6LP/1986), complete solo piano
  works and concertos of Chopin (15CD/1992), of
  Brahms (12CD/1997), Rachmaninoff (10CD/2000) and
  the piano transcription of Stravinskys ballet
  music The Firebird (2003) and many others.
  BIRET's wide repertoire encompasses much of the
  late Classical and Romantic piano literature. She
  is probably best known for her Chopin recordings,
  which won her the prestigious 'Grand Prix du
  Disque Frédéric Chopin' in Poland in 1995.