The Turkish Five () is a name used by some authors to identify five pioneers of Western classical music in Turkey.İlyasoğlu (1998), 14. They were all born in the first decade of the 20th century, within about three-and-a-half years of each other, and composed their best music in the early years of the

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, especially during the presidencies of

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...

and

İsmet İnönü Mustafa İsmet İnönü (24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the second List of Presidents of Turkey, president of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, and as its Prime Minister of Turkey, pr ...

. They all shared contacts with the two presidents and were highly encouraged as such, both on a personal level and also through the general drive towards westernization in Turkey. The Turkish Five composers are: *

Ahmet Adnan Saygun Ahmet Adnan Saygun (; 7 September 1907 – 6 January 1991) was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music. One of a group of composers known as the Turkish Five who pioneered western classical music in Turkey, his works show a maste ...

(1907-1991) *

Ulvi Cemal Erkin Ulvi Cemal Erkin () (March 14, 1906 – September 15, 1972) was a member of the pioneer group of symphonic composers in Turkey, born in the period 1904–1910, who later came to be called The Turkish Five. These composers set out the direction o ...

(1906-1972) *

Cemal Reşit Rey Cemal Reşit Rey (; 25 October 1904 – 7 October 1985) was a Turkish people, Turkish composer, pianist, screenwriter, script writer and Conducting, conductor. He was well known for a string of successful and popular Turkish-language operettas fo ...

(1904-1985) *

Hasan Ferit Alnar Hasan Ferid Alnar (11 March 1906 – 30 July 1978) was a Turkish classical music composer. He was a member of the Turkish Five, in the first half of the 20th century. Alnar is known for his efforts for harmonization of classical Turkish music ...

(1906-1978) *

Necil Kazım Akses Necil Kazım Akses (6 May 1908 – 16 February 1999) was a Turkish classical composer. Life Akses studied music and composition at the Musikakademie in Vienna with Joseph Marx and at the Prague Conservatory in Prague with Josef Suk and Aloi ...

(1908-1999) These composers set out the direction of classic music in the newly established Turkish Republic. The use of Turkish folk music and traditional/modal elements in an entirely western symphonic style characterised the music of these composers.Helvaci (2012), ''passim''.

References

Notes Sources * Helvaci, Ayhan (2012)
"Contemporary Turkish Composers – Turkish Five"
''Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences'', 46, pp. 2630–34. * İlyasoğlu, Evin (1998). ''Çağdaş Türk bestecileri'' ontemporary Turkish Composers Pan Yayıncılık 49. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Pan Yayıncılık. . Further Reading * Aydin, Yilmaz (2002). ''Die Werke der 'Türkischen Fünf' im Lichte der Musikalischen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen der Türkei und Europa.'' Europäische Hochshculschriften, Peter Lang Publisher.

External links

Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Official Web SiteNecil Kazım Akses, Official Web Site
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Anthology of Turkish Piano Music, Vol. I
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Anthology of Turkish Piano Music, Vol. II
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Anthology of Turkish Piano Music, Vol. III
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