{{Short description, none This is a list of Classical Turkish Music composers in alphabetical order:

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* Abdurrahman Bahir Efendi (Arabzade) - 1746 * Abdülkadir Meragi - 1435 * Ahmet Uzel * Ahmet Yektâ Madran - 1865 * Ali Şir Nevai - 1501 * Aziz Mahmud Hudayi - 1628

B

* Bekir Büyükarkın * Bestâmi Yazgan *

Beşir Ayvazoğlu Beşir Ayvazoğlu (born 11 February 1953, Zara, Sivas) is a Turkish lyricist, writer and journalist. Ayvazoğlu graduated from the Bursa Institute of Education, Department of Literature. He taught Turkish and literature at various high school ...

Bîmen Şen Bîmen Şen (born Bîmen Dergazaryan, ; 1873 – 26 August 1943) was a composer and lyricist of Armenian descent. Life Şen was born in 1873 in Bursa, Ottoman Empire. He came from a music-loving family and was esteemed for his singing. As a chi ...

* Bolâhenk Nuri Bey * Buhûrizâde Abdülkerim Efendi

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Cinuçen Tanrıkorur Cinuçen Tanrıkorur was an oud master, prolific composer of Turkish classical music, musicologist, and music journalist. He served as the director of Turkish Music at Ankara Radio, and taught music at Selçuk University. He was born in Istanb ...

- 2001

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Hafız Post Hafiz Post (c.1630–1694) was a composer and performer of Ottoman music during the Ottoman Empire era in Constantinople. Biography His father was an imam. He was trained well in literature, music and foreign languages such as Persian and A ...

- 1693 *

Hacı Arif Bey Haci Arif Bey (1831–1885) was a Turkish composer from Istanbul, most known for his compositions in the '' şarkı'' form, the most common secular form in Turkish classical music. He was a very prolific composer, who on some days, composed more ...

Hampartsoum Limondjian Hampartsoum Limondjian (; 1768 – 29 June 1839) was an Ottoman Armenian composer of Armenian church, inclined to composition of classical music and Ottoman classical music. He was a musical theorist who developed the "Hamparsum" notation syst ...

* Hüseyin Baykara - 1506

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* Buhurizade Mustafa Itri - 1712 * İsmail Dede Efendi - (1778 - 1846)

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* Kâni Karaca - 2004 * Kantemiroğlu - 1727

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Leyla Saz Leyla Saz, also called Leyla Hanımefendi (1850–1936), was an Ottoman and later a Turkish composer, poet and writer. Biography Born in 1850, she was the daughter of İsmail Hakkı Pasha, (often called Hekim İsmail Pasha (İsmail Pasha t ...

- 1936

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Mesut Cemil Mesut Cemil (; 1902 – October 31, 1963) was a Turkish composer, and a notable ''tanbur'' lute and cello player. His father was Tanburi Cemil Bey. He participated in the 1932 Cairo Congress of Arab Music. Cemil took cello and violin lessons ...

- 1945 *

Muzaffer Ozak Muzaffer Ozak (formally: Sheikh Muzaffer Özak Âșkî al-Jerrahi) (1916 – 12 February 1985) was a Turkish Muslim spiritual author, imam, and the 19th Grand Sheikh of the Halveti- Jerrahi Order of Dervishes, a traditional Ottoman Sufi ord ...

- 1984 *

Münir Nurettin Selçuk Münir Nurettin Selçuk (1900 or 1901 – April 27, 1981) was a Turkish classical musician and tenor singer. Biography He was born in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire in 1900 or 1901. His uncle was Grand Vizier of ...

- 1981

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Necdet Yaşar Necdet Yaşar (; 1930 - October 24, 2017) was a Turkish ''tanbur'' lute player and teacher. A founding member of the Istanbul State Turkish Music Ensemble, he performed throughout the world as a cultural ambassador for Turkey and taught twice a ...

- alive

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Rauf Yekta Bey Rauf or Rawuf (Arabic: رَؤُوف ''ra’ūf'' or ''rawūf'') is an Arabic male given name or surname which is a noun and the exaggerated form of the name Raif (or Raef) meaning "kind, affectionate, benign", "sympathetic, merciful" or ''compassio ...

- 1935

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Sadettin Kaynak Sadettin Kaynak (1895 – 3 February 1961) was a prominent composer of Turkish classical music. Biography Born in Istanbul, he became a hafiz at a young age. He lost his father early in his youth. He completed his music education at the Ist ...

Selim III Selim III (; ; was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. Regarded as an enlightened ruler, he was eventually deposed and imprisoned by the Janissaries, who placed his cousin Mustafa on the throne as Mustafa IV (). A group of a ...

* Şerif Muhiddin Targan - 1967

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* Tamburi Cemil Bey - 1916 * Tatyos Efendi - 1913 Turkish Turkish classical composers

Composers A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and defi ...