Kemani Tatyos Efendi

Kemani Tatyos Ekserciyan, known as Kemani Tatyos Efendi, Tatyos Enkserciyan, Tateos Eñserciyan (born 1855 in Istanbul; † 16. March 1913) holds a unique position in the history of Ottoman classical music. He was among the last of the classicists to compose in the style of the lale devri or the Tulip Age (1718-30) when music flourished most in the Ottoman Empire… Kemani Tatyos combined in his compositions a mastery of Ottoman classical forms, theorized and refined over centuries, with a Beethoven-like lyricism unique in its seamlessness and its allusion to western forms.