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MUSIC BY DIMITRI CANTEMIROGLU

17 th Century Ottoman Music by Dimitri Cantemiroglu 17 th Century Ottoman Music by Dimitri Kandemiroglu *1673  Dimitrie Cantemir (Romanian: [diˈmitri.e kanteˈmir]; 1673 -- 1723) was twice Prince of Moldavia (in March--April 1693 and in 1710-1711). He was also a prolific man of letters - philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer. 

 His name is spelled Dimitrie Cantemir in Romanian, Dmitriy Konstantinovich Kantemir (Дми́трий Константи́нович Кантеми́р) in Russian, Dimitri Kantemiroğlu in Turkish, Dymitr Kantemir in Polish, Dimitrios Kantemiris (Δημήτριος Καντεμίρης) in Greek and Demetre Cantemir in several other languages.

 Musicology Soviet stamp devoted to Dimitrie Cantemir, 1973 (Michel 4175, Scott 4132).  Some of Cantemir's compositions are part of the regular repertory of Turkish music ensembles. In 1999, the Bezmara ensemble have recorded an album, Yitik Sesin Peşinde ("In Search of the Lost Sound") from the Cantemir transcriptions using period instruments. In 2000, Golden Horn Records released a CD exploring Cantemir's compositions, European composers of Cantemir's era, and folk music of Moldavia.

Featuring solo improvisations on kemençe (Turkish bowed fiddle) and tanbur (Turkish long-necked plucked lute) by famed master Íhsan Özgen and early music ensemble Lux Musica directed by Linda Burman-Hall, the project fulfills an ambitious endeavor by Özgen and Burman-Hall to meld early European music styles and instruments with today's Turkish art music styles and instruments, with Cantemir as their touchstone.[5]  In 2009, Alia Vox published a CD and booklet of music performed by the Hespèrion XXI ensemble and invited musicians under the baton of Jordi Savall.

 The recording and booklet both pertain to "The Book of the Science of Music" by Cantemir and the Sephardic and Armenian musical traditions. Seven of Cantemir's compositions are included in the recording along with other Turkish, Armenian and Sephardic music. [6]  He had around 40 compositions in the Ottoman music of which few are performed today, but his greatest service to the Ottoman music is the fact that he helped survival of 350 instrumental pieces by recording them in a certain notation (the ebced) script he developed in his work Edvar which he presented to Sultan Ahmed III.

 Music of Dimitrie Cantemir on youtube