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Ahmed Adnan Saygun
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Ahmed Adnan Saygun (7 September 1907 - 6 January 1991) was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music. Ahmed Adnan Saygun is acknowledged as one of the most important 20th century composers in Turkish music history. He was a master of the neoclassical form, and his works are rooted in Western musical practice; yet they incorporate traditional Turkish folk songs and culture. He usually adds this folk element by picking one note out of the scale and weaves a melody around it using a Turkish mode. His extensive output includes five symphonies, five operas, two piano concertos, concertos for violin, viola and cello, and a wide range of chamber and choral works. The London Times called him "the grand old man of Turkish music, who was to his country what Jean Sibelius is to Finland, what Manuel de Falla is to Spain, and what Béla Bartók is to Hungary." As Saygun was growing up in Turkey he witnessed radical changes in his country’s politics and culture as the reforms of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had replaced the Ottoman Empire—which had ruled for nearly 600 years—with a new secular republic based on Western models and traditions. As Atatürk had created a new cultural identity for his people and newly founded nation, Saygun found his role in developing what Atatürk had begun. Ahmed Adnan Saygun was born in 1907 in İzmir, Turkey. There were frequent concerts given by the Ottoman military bands, and performances of Western works by chamber music ensembles at the time and this
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Allegretto From Partita, op. 31, for Cello Solo
2552Cantata in Old Style Op. 19 Choral No. 4 (Tanrım)
193Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 71 (1985): II. Lento - Poco più mosso - Poco meno - Lento
144Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 71 (1985): III. Animato - Moderato - Animato
145Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 71 (1985): I. Moderato - Presto - Allegro - Grave - Pesante - Largo - Poco vivo - Allegro
136III. Allegretto
117Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 34 (1951-1957): I. Deciso - Moderato - Vivo - Animato - Meno mosso - Cadenza. Rubato - Deciso - Moderato - Vivo - Molto vivo
118Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 34 (1951-1957): III. Allegro assai
119Ahmed Adnan Saygun, String Quartet No. 1 Op. 27
1110Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 34 (1951-1957): II. Andante con moto - Sostenuto - Tempo primo
10albums
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A Playlist Without Borders
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Cantata in Old Style Op. 19 Choral No. 4 (Tanrım)
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Kathryn Woodard
Hidden Treasure
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Yunus Emre Oratoryosu
Piano Concertos 1 & 2
Complete String Quartets
Symphonies 1 & 2
Complete String Quartets (Quatuor Danel)
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Ahmed Adnan Saygun - Piano Concertos 1 & 2
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Bartok - Saygun: Piano Works
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The Art of Turkish Song (Turkish Songs of the 20th Century)