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Born in Eyüp, Istanbul, he died in 1897. He was trained by Dede Efendi, Dellâlzâde and Sermüezzin Rif'at Bey; he was a hânende and a neyzen. He taught music at Darüşşafaka. He composed a great number of sacred and secular works, above all Mevlevî âyins. Rauf Yekta, Hüseyin Fahreddin Dede, Ahmet Avni Konuk and his son Ahmet Irsoy were among his students.[1]
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The âyin performed twenty-two years later
In 1870, at the request of Mustafa Fâzıl Pasha, whose music teacher he was from 1845 until the Pasha’s death in 1875, Zekâi Dede composed a Mevlevi âyin in makam sûzidil. The âyin could only be performed at a mukabele in 1892, at the Bahariye Mevlevi lodge; the Pasha did not live to see it. The score of this âyin is not yet in our archive.[2]
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