Cenan Akın (1932,
Şebinkarahisar
Şebinkarahisar is a town in and the administrative seat for Şebinkarahisar District, Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of northeastern Turkey.
Name
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– 3 November 2006,
Istanbul
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) was a Turkish composer, conductor and music educator. He directed the first
L.P. disc of modern Turkish
choral music
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in the mid-1960s.
[''Bulletin of the Dolmetsch Foundation'', Haslemere, England - 1968 Page 3 "Composers I did not mention in my article on Music in modern Turkey have lately come into prominence - men like Cenan Akin, who directed the first L.P. disc of modern Turkish choral music,"]
Works
* Op. 1 ''İlk Şarkılar'' First Songs (voice and piano)
* Op. 2 ''Çocuk Bahçesi'' Children's Playground (voice and piano)
* Op. 3 ''Altı Şarkı'' Six Songs (piano)
* Op. 4 ''Küçüklerin Dünyası'' Minors World (piano)
* Op. 5 ''Halk Türküleri'' Folk Songs (for choir)
* Op. 6 ''Rubailer'' (bass and piano)
* Op. 7 ''Sokaktayım'' In the street (bass and piano)
* Op. 8 ''On Çocuk Şarkısı'' On Children's Song
* Op. 9 ''Sinan'm Sarkılan'' (songs)
* Op. 10 ''Yunus' tan Deyişler'' Sayings of Yunus (solo-chorus and orchestra)
* Op. 11 ''Kirtim Kirt'' (for male chorus)
* Op. 12 ''Uzun Hava ve Horon'' Long-Air and Online (piano)
* Op. 13 ''Orkestra İçin Üç Türkü (Bölümler: Dumanlı Boğaz; Ağıt; Yiğitleme)'' - Three Turks (3 Parts: Misty throat; Requiem; Yiğitleme)
* Op. 14 ''Marşlar'' Anthems (voice and piano)
* Op. 15 ''Dağlar-Karakoyun'' Karakoyun Mountains (piano)
* Op. 16 ''Duyuş'' Feeling (for piano)
* ''Destan'' (for orchestra)
* ''Can Yurdum'' (for mixed choir)
* ''On Bir Mani'' (for mixed choir)
* ''Yayîa'da'' (for flute solo)
References
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Turkish composers
1947 births
2006 deaths