Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi

Over 500 compositions — the Ottoman Schubert

The most prolific and beloved composer of late Ottoman classical music. Over 500 works spanning every genre of Turkish art music. A Mevlevi dervish, he died on pilgrimage to Mecca.

Key works

• Rast Kâr-ı Nâtık~1820s— Encyclopedic tour of makams within a single composition
  Score / performed in Turkey
• Mevlevi Ayin in Ferahfeza makam~1830s— Sacred Sufi ceremony music of transcendent beauty
  Score / performed in Turkey

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