Tatyos Eñserciyan (1858 – March 16, 1913), or Tatyos Efendi, was a famous composer of classical Turkish music, and his works continue to be among the most played and revered examples of the genre. An Armenian from Istanbul, Tatyos Efendi was born in 1858 in the Ortaköy district of Istanbul as the son of Manug Aga, an amateur musician at the Ortaköy Armenian Church. Tatyos Efendi's family had a minor trading business and when he finished the Ortaköy Armenian Elementary School, he started an apprenticeship at a locksmith and later became an apprentice at a savat workshop (a traditional form of silver work). Due to his deep interest in music, Tatyos Efendi left his apprenticeship and bought a second hand kanun to receive his first music lessons from his uncle Movses Papazyan. He played the ka
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طاتيوس أكسرجيان (بالأرمنية: Թադեոս Էքսերճյան) (1858-1913) المشهور باسم طاطيوس أفندي ملحن وعازف كمان أرمنيّ. هو أشهر الملحّنين العثمانيّين عند الأتراك وعند العرب على الإطلاق وأكثرهم تأثيراً في موسيقى المقام، حيث ذاعت سماعياته (جمع سماعي) وبشارفه •
TATYOS EFENDİ (TATEOS ENKSERCİYAN)
KOMPONIST UND INTERPRETEN
(1858-1913)
Armenian composer, violin and kanun player. Tatyos was born in Ortaköy, Istanbul. He was the son of Manokyan Enkserciyan, a church singer (mugannîleri). Tatyos finished Ortaköy Armenian primary school and first became an apprentice of a key maker, then of an enamel maker. He learned Kanun from his uncle Movses Papazyan, later violin from Sebuh and studied music with Civan and Asdik. He started to play kanun in the Galata, Pirinçici Casino. He taught music to Arşak Çömlekçiyan, M.M. Kamsoy, N.M Yürü and M. Sunar, and violin to Abdülkâdir Töre. He died of liver jaundice and alcohol, and was buried in Uzunçayır Armenian cemetery in Kadıköy. There is a record, “Tateos 1913 çalgıcı (musician)” in the death incident notes of the church. There were as many as 15 people attending in the funeral. He mentored important Turkish traditional music composers, including Greek Zharya, Jewish İsak and Armenian Tatyos. He started to play kanun but returned to violin. Lem’i Atlı recorded in his memory that Tatyos could not p
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Biography
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.