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Cemal Reşit Rey, the unsung hero who lives among us every moment through the operetta Lüküs Hayat and the “Tenth Anniversary March,” which are still constantly on people’s lips, was the first to arrange folk melodies polyphonically and wrote the first major symphonies, symphonic poems, concertos, chamber music, piano works, and stage works.
Evin İlyasoğlu tells the story of the most important pioneer of contemporary Turkish music together with the mansion life that has now vanished, its cuisine, table manners, and cultural environment. The life of Cemal Reşit Rey, whose family included such important figures as his father Ahmet Reşit Bey, one of the last Ottoman ministers of the interior, and his great uncle Osman Hamdi Bey, is a symbol of the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic and an original synthesis of East and West.
Cemal Reşit Rey: Wandering in a World Made Only of Music, in its updated new edition, explores from every perspective the story of a great figure who devoted his entire life to music. You are invited on this journey through our musical history. With respect for his memory on the 119th anniversary of his birth…