Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey

Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey

Infobox musical artist
Name = Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey


Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Born = 1816
Flagicon|Ottoman Empire Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died = 1885 (aged 80)
Flagicon|Turkey Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Instrument = tanbur
Occupation = composer, tanburi
Genre = Ottoman classical music

Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey (1816–1885) was an Ottoman composer and tanbur player. He is considered one of the most outstanding peşrev compositors in Ottoman classical music.

Life

Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey was born in 1816 in the Tophane district of Istanbul. Most of the information we have on him originates from an oral tradition amongst his pupils and the pupils of those who knew him. His father, Zeki Mehmed Ağa as well has his grandfather Tanburi Numan Ağa were musicians of renown. At the age of eight, he was accepted to the Imperial School of Enderun, where he began his education among the foregoing masters of Turkish classical music, from whom he required a firm theoretical basis. His acquaintance with the tanbur also dates back to those years.

As his father Zeki Mehmed Ağa is said to have refused to pass on to his son his knowledge of the tanbur, most of the work must have come to be incumbent on Osman Bey himself. He is also said to have participated in fasıls with prominent vocal musicians of his time such as Rifat Bey and Haşim Bey, improving mostly his vocal technique. With the death of his father, he gave up singing and concentrated solely on his instrument and took part in "incesaz fasılları" performed at the court of Sultan Abdülaziz Han. He is said to have made most of his compositions at this period. As he was enthusiastic about Mevlana Djelaleddin Rumi, he frequented many mevlevihanes, especially the Kulekapısı Mevlevihanesi on Fridays [ÖZALP, Nazmi, "Türk Mûsikîsi Tarihi", Milli Eğitim Basımevi (MEB), Ankara : 2000 (2 volumes). [tr. "History of Turkish Music" by the Turkish Ministry of Education] ] .

He is also said to have had an obsessive temperament, known for attempting to beat a kanuni who played a false note while playing the transition to the final part of his uşşak peşrevi. [ÖZALP, Nazmi, "Türk Mûsikîsi Tarihi", Milli Eğitim Basımevi (MEB), Ankara : 2000 (2 volumes). [tr. "History of Turkish Music" by the Turkish Ministry of Education] ] .

In 1885, he succumbed to a pulmonary disorder from which he had been suffering for a long time, and is now buried in the cemetery of the Yahya Efendi Dergâhı in Istanbul. He had three sons and a daughter.

Compositions

As a composer, he excelled mostly in peşrevs which make up an important part of the current repertoire. His style displays a certain minimalism, avoiding rapid changes from one uslub to the other, thus lightening the peşrev form and conferring it a balanced structure. Most of his peşrevs use devr-i kebir as their rhythmical basis and are easily distinguishable from the earlier works of his precedents. The only former peşrev composer he is said to have cherished is Gazi Giray Han, of whose "Hüzzam Peşrevi" he had much appreciation (he designated the work as "sehl-i mümtenî", meaning "a simple work done with great skill", a "piece of jewel"). After having refused for a long time to compose a peşrev in this maqam (hüzzam) for the musical rites of the Mevlevi order, he finally composed the famous hüzzam peşrevi on the instigation of the sheikh of the Galata Mevlevi Monastery Atâullah Efendi. This piece is still widely heard during Mevlevi rites.

He has bequeathed the following compositions:

References

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