Plevna March or Osman Pasha March was written in order to commemorate
Osman Pasha Osman Pasha (also spelled ''Uthman Pasha'' or ''Othman Pasha'') may refer to:
* Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha (1527–1585), Ottoman grand vizier
* Bosniak Osman Pasha (died 1685), Ottoman governor of Egypt, Damascus, and Bosnia
* Topal Osman Pasha (16 ...
, who led
Ottoman troops in the
Siege of Plevna
The siege of Pleven, was a major battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, fought by the joint army of Russia and Romania against the Ottoman Empire. After the Russian army crossed the Danube at Svishtov, it began advancing towards t ...
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[Büyük Larousse Sözlük ve Ansiklopedisi (1986), v. 18, c. 9433, Gelişim Yayınları.]
History
It was sung under the name of ''Old Plevna March'' by Hafız Yaşar Bey and his group in 1910 (not definite) and underwent some changes before it took its final version. According to Yaşar Bey, it had been written by Mehmet Ali Bey.
[''Osmanlı Marşları: The Ottoman Military Music in 78 rpm Records'', Muammer Karabey Koleksiyonu Book & CD, Kalan.] According to other sources, it was written by Mithat Efendi and composed by
Armenian composer
Tigran Chukhajian
Tigran Gevorki Chukhajian ( hy, Տիգրան Չուխաճեան, tr, Dikran Çuhacıyan; 1837 – March 11, 1898) was an Ottoman Armenian composer and conductor, and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire.
Biography ...
. There are still other sources that claim the song was written by Georges Pera and composed by Edouard Taxim where these names only represent the nicknames.
Its tone is ''con tristezza'',
which means ''with sadness''.
Lyrics
References
External links
Sound file(by the Harmonic Band of the
TAF)
Sound file(by Hafız Yaşar Bey)
Turkish music
March music
Pleven
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