Cinuçen Tanrıkorur was an

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master, prolific composer of

Turkish classical music Ottoman music ( tr, Osmanlı müziği) or Turkish classical music ( tr, Türk sanat müziği) is the tradition of classical music originating in the Ottoman Empire. Developed in the palace, major Ottoman cities, and Sufi lodges, it traditionally ...

, musicologist, and music journalist. He served as the director of Turkish Music at Ankara Radio, and taught music at

Selçuk University Selçuk University ( tr, Selçuk Üniversitesi) is a state-owned higher educational institution which was founded 1975 in Konya, Turkey. It is one of the largest universities in Turkey with a student body of 63,000 of which 2,200 are foreign stu ...

. He was born in Istanbul. He was first exposed to music through his uncle Mecdinevin Tanrikorur who was a student of

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 ...

. He was introduced to the oud through his mother, and started composing at the age of 14. At the age of 22 he became a musician at the Istanbul Radio. He is a graduate of the Italyan lisesi high school, and later studied architecture in Istanbul, and then moved to

Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...

where he worked for the government as an architect. He wrote a method for the oud, which was awarded a prize by

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. He was later the director of the traditional music section at Ankara Radio for several years. He composed over 500 pieces of both instrumental and vocal music, and is regarded as one of the greatest contemporary Turkish composers in the classical tradition. He also created a new mode, Makam Şedd-i sabâ, which he demonstrated in a classical suite (

fasıl The ''fasıl'' is a suite in Ottoman classical music. It is similar to the Arabic '' nawba'' and '' waslah''. A classical ''fasıl'' generally includes movements such as '' taksim'', '' peşrev'', '' kâr'', '' beste'', '' ağır semâ'î'', '' y ...

) of six pieces.

References

Biography
by Tolga Bektaş

External links

Articles in ''Turkish Music Quarterly''

by Cinuçen Tanrıkorur. Translated by Savaş Ş. Barkçin.

1938 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Turkish male musicians Composers of Ottoman classical music Composers of Turkish makam music Musicians of Ottoman classical music Musicians of Turkish makam music 20th-century composers {{Turkey-musician-stub