Composers

Ahmed Rasim Bey was born in 1864 in Sarıgüzel, Istanbul. His father was Kıbrıslı Menteşeoğlu Bahaddin Efendi, and his mother was Nevher Hanım. He began his education at the neighborhood school...

Güneş Müftüoğlu was born in 1945 in the Çaycuma district of Zonguldak. He completed his primary and secondary education in Çaycuma, and attended Mehmet Çelikel High School for his secondary studies...

Manyasizâde Refik Bey was born in 1854. He was a civil law professor at the Imperial School of Law (Mekteb-i Hukuk-ı Şahane / Istanbul University Faculty of Law) and...

Samih Rifat was born in 1875 in Istanbul. He received private education and began his civil service career at the Istanbul Municipality. At the same time, he worked as a journalist…

Rüştü Şardağ was born in 1915 in Aleppo, where his father, Mehmet Atıf Bey, was serving as a regimental clerk. He was originally from Elbistan…

Hasan Âli Yücel was born on December 16, 1897, in Istanbul. In 1921, he graduated from the Faculty of Literature, Department of Philosophy at Istanbul Darülfünunu (Istanbul University). In 1922, he was appointed as a literature teacher at the Izmir Teacher School…