Birth name Cemil Genres Ottoman classical music Labels (reissues) Kalan Record label Kalan Muzik | Name Cemil Bey Children Mesut Cemil Role Composer | |
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Instruments tanbur, kemence, cello, lavta, yayli tanbur Died July 28, 1916, Istanbul, Turkey Compositions Muhayyer Sazsemaisi, Muhayyer Sazsemaisi, Ferahfeza Pesrev, Ferahfeza Pesrev, Nikriz Sirto, Nikriz Sirto, Feryad ki Feryadima Imdad Edecek Yok, Feryad ki Feryadima Imdad Edecek Yok, Muhayyer Pesrev, Muhayyer Pesrev, Rast Zeybek, Rast Zeybek, Sedaraban Sazsemaisi, Sedaraban Sazsemaisi, Neva Pesrev, Neva Pesrev, Sevdim Seni Ey Isvebaz, Sevdim Seni Ey Isvebaz, Hicazkar Sazsemaisi, Hicazkar Sazsemaisi, Isfahan Sazsemaisi, Isfahan Sazsemaisi, Sedaraban Pesrevi, Sedaraban Pesrevi, Ferahfeza Sazsemaisi ( Tanburi Cemil Bey ), Ferahfeza Sazsemaisi ( Tanburi Cemil Bey ), Suzidilara Saz Semaisi, Suzidilara Saz Semaisi, Nihavent Sirto, Nihavent Sirto, Hicazkar Pesrevi, Hicazkar Pesrevi, Kurdilihicazkar Pesrevi, Kurdilihicazkar Pesrevi, Nikriz Zeybek, Nikriz Zeybek, Mahur Pesrevi, Mahur Pesrevi, Isfahan Pesrev, Isfahan Pesrev Similar Kemani Tatyos Ekserciyan, Necil Kazım Akses, Hasan Ferit Alnar | ||
Muhayyer saz sem tamburi cemil bey with notes
Tamburi Cemil Bey or Tanburi Cemil Bey (French: Tambouri Djemil Bey), (1873, Istanbul – July 28, 1916, Istanbul) was an Ottoman tambur, yaylı tambur, kemençe, and lavta virtuoso and composer, who has greatly contributed to the taksim (improvisation on a makam/maqam) genre in Ottoman classical music. His son, Mesut Cemil Bey, was an equally renowned Turkish tambur virtuoso.
Contents
- Muhayyer saz sem tamburi cemil bey with notes
- Rast zeybek tanburi cemil bey d t rkan s sinopoulos
- Biography
- Compositions
- References
Rast zeybek tanburi cemil bey d t rkan s sinopoulos
Biography
Cemil Bey was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, in 1871 or 1873; his birth date is uncertain. He took his first lessons in music from Kanuni Ahmet Bey and the violin player Kemani Aleksan, his first instruments thus being the violin and the kanun. After completing middle school, he continued in a school for civil servants (Mülkiye), but then devoted himself to music and abandoned his education. He began to play the tanbur quite early in his youth and by the age of 20, his renown had already spread among the tamburis of Istanbul. Reforming the traditional playing technique of the tambur, he developed an energetic technique based on a rich and agile picking style, lightening to a great extent the sonority of this instrument. Later on, he set about playing the Turkish classical kemençe and attained an astonishingly high level of technique, so much so that the virtuosity level of the Ottoman kemençevi of Greek-Gyspy origin Vassilis (1845–1907), considered as then as "the reference", came to be thought of by certain amateurs to be outmatched... He was also the inventor of the Yaylı tambur.
Cemil Bey was able to play any instrument he picked up: he played lavta, cello, yaylı tanbur, zurna and several other instruments with equal virtuosity. His taksims and instrumental works he recorded on 78rpms with tanbur, kemençe, lavta, cello and yaylı tanbur had considerable impact on generations of musicians following him. The peşrevs and sazsemais he composed are pieces of great taste, requiring a developed performance technique.
If we are to lay confidence in his close friend Mahmut Demirhan's words:
He was a very sensitive and nervous person, who eventually suffered from alcoholism. Most of his compositions have been preserved in his recordings, but some of his work were incomplete when he died.