Necil kaz m akses string quartet no 1 1946 2nd movement
Life
Akses studied music and composition at the Musikakademie in Vienna with Joseph Marx and at the Prague Conservatory in Prague with Josef Suk and Alois Hába. He helped co-found the Ankara State Conservatory with the composer Paul Hindemith and served as director of the institution for a while.
Together with Cemal Reşit Rey, Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, and Hasan Ferit Alnar, Akses belonged to a group called The Turkish Five, who were the first Turkish composers to adapt their homeland's musical tradition to the techniques of Western classical composition. (Their name alluded to the Russian Five.)
In 1949, Akses entered the service of the Turkish state. He worked as the Turkish cultural attaché in Bern and Bonn, among other posts.
Akses composed orchestral works, chamber music, and pieces for piano. His most famous work is his violin concerto (1969).
Operas
"Mete" (Opera in one act) (Libretto: Yaşar Nabi Nayır) (1933)
"Bay önder" (Opera in one act) (Libretto: Münir Hayri Egeli) (1934) (First performance: 27 December 1934-Ankara-Conductor: Adnan Saygun)
"Timur" (Opera in four acts) (Libretto: Behçet Kemal Çağlar) (Incomplete) (1956)
"MİMAR SİNAN" (Opera) (Libretto: Necdet Aydın and Necil Kâzım Akses (First act completed) (1980’s)
Orchestra
Poem (1932–33) (premièred on 29 October 1933-Prague)
A Summer Remembrance – Morning on the Bosphorus (1932–33) (premièred on 29 October 1933-Prague)
"The Citadel of Ankara" – Symphonic Poem - (1938–1942) Ankara State Conservatory Publication (First performance: October 1942-Ankara-PSO*-E. Praetorius)
"Idyll" (for cello and orchestra) (1981) (First performance 20 March 1981-Ankara-Doğan Cangal-PSO-Gürer Aykal)
Chamber Music
"Allegro Feroce" (for clarinet/saxophone and piano) (1930) (Universal Edition Publication No. 10.024) (First performance: 5 May 1931-Vienna) (Friedrich Wildans-Friedrich Statzer)
Introduction and Fugue for String Quartet (1930–31) (First performance: Vienna-5 May 1931-The Rothschild Quartet)
"Allegro Feroce" (viola and piano version)
"Poem" (for violin and piano) (1930) (First performance: 5 May 1931-Vienna-Christa Richter (violin)-Friedrich Statzer (piano)
Sonata for flute and piano (1933) (Jorj D.Papajorjiu Publication No. 64. First performance: 13 June 1934 Prague-Karel Neoproud-Flute-Karel Reiner-Piano)
"Three Poems" (for mezzo-soprano and string quartet) (1933)
Trio for Strings (1945) (State Conservatory Publication No. 43)
String Quartet No. 1 (1946) (State Conservatory Publication No.21) First performance: 26 September 1947-Prague-Çeskoslovenska Quartet)
Ten piano pieces (1964) (Ankara State Conservatory Publication No.29)
Solo Instrument
"Capriccio" (for solo viola) (May 1978) (First performance: 30 April 1979-Ankara-Koral Çalgan)
"Sad Melody" (for solo viola) (23 April 1984)
Chorus
Folk Songs (Harmonized) (1936)
A cappella chorus compositions (1947) (State Conservatory Publication No.23)
Ten Folk Songs(Harmonized a capella mixed chorus) (1964) (State Conservatory Publication No.33) (First performance of some of them -1964-Ankara State Opera Chorus-Ferit TÜZÜN)
"Poets Devoted to İstanbul" (for polyphonic a cappella chorus) (1983) (First performance: the same year, TRT Ankara Polyphonic Chorus-Walter Strauss-Studio recording)
Marches
"Conservatory March" (with Ulvi Cemal Erkin) – (for chorus and orchestra) (1940)
Boy Scout March (for chorus and orchestra)
"Turkey"(march for chorus and orchestra)
"March for the 50th Anniversary of the Republic" (for chorus and orchestra) (1973) (First performance: 1973-PSO-Hikmet Şimşek)
Incidental Music
Incidental music for "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare (for wind instruments) (1942)
Incidental music for "Antigone" by Sophocles (for wind instruments) (1942)
Incidental music for "King Oidipus" by Sophocles (for wind instruments and women’s chorus) (April 1943)