Rauf Yekta Bey

Rauf Yekta Bey (1871 – 1935) was a Turkish musician, musicologist and writer on music.

Biography

He wrote the first modern account of Turkish classical music available in a Western language ("La Musique turque", in Encyclopedie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire, Premiere partie, Paris, 1922 (written in 1913)).

References

Turkmusikisi.com - Biography of Rauf Yekta Bey (Turkish)

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Name	Bey, Rauf Yekta
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Date of birth	1871
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Date of death	1935
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