Demir Vlonjati

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Demir Vlonjati (c. 1780-1845) born Demir Mystehaku and also known as Demir Aga Vlonjakasi was an Albanian folk singer, composer and poet.^[1]

Demir Mystehaku was born in Matogjin, southern Albania around 1780 and died there in 1845.^[1] He became a famous singer and created a new genre of Albanian polyphonic music named demirçe after him.^[1] This genre influenced the works of another famous composer from the same region, Qazim Ademi.^[1] In 1845 he wrote an octosyllabic poem in nineteen quatrains condemning a massacre in Vlorë region committed by Ottoman Turkish forces that year and the negative effects of the Tanzimat on Albania.^[2]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Tole, Vasil. "Inventory of performers on iso-polyphony". UNESCO. p. 5. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
↑ Sellheim, R; Elsie, Robert (1992). Oriens. BRILL. p. 304. ISBN 90-04-09651-5.

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Name	Vlonjati, Demir
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Short description	Albanian musician
Date of birth	1780
Place of birth
Date of death	1845
Place of death

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