Friday marks 173 years since the passing of legendary composer Ismail Dede Efendi, known by many as the father of Ottoman classical music. “Dede Efendi is the pioneer of the Ottoman classical music,” ...

Record collector Ian Nagoski has been buying up cheap 78 rpm discs for over a decade. The 36-year-old music junkie and record store owner always had one rule: "My policy was to buy anything in a ...

The UC Santa Barbara Library has acquired a sizable collection of classical Turkish music recorded from the early to mid-20th century From the Middle Ages to the first decades of the 20 th century, ...

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“Dede Efendi, with his special talent in music, received the special attention of Ali Nutki Dede,” a prominent poet and musician, he added. Friday marks 173 years since the passing of legendary ...

When Ateþ Temeltaþ was a boy in Istanbul, his father, Abdurrahman, seemed prescient about the effect that Westernization, and an eventual relocation to the West, might have on his ambitious offspring.

A stringed instrument that once belonged to a woman in the harem of Sultan Abdulaziz has been bought by a 22-year-old Turkish music student. Emine Bostanci, who studies at Rotterdam Conservatory in ...