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Teachers: Tatyos Efendi, Cerrah Fehmi Efendi, Hacı Nâfiz Bey
Work: Usûl-i Ta'lîm-i Kemân (violin method)
Student: M. Ekrem Karadeniz
Life
Abdülkadir Töre was born in 1873 in Kashgar in East Turkestan, was educated in Istanbul and worked for many years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He learned the kanun from Hüseyin Hâlid Bey, the violin from Tatyos Efendi and Kirkor Efendi, and the religious forms from Cerrah Fehmi Efendi and Durakçı Hacı Nâfiz Bey. He taught at the Dârülbedâyi and the Dârülelhan and ran the Gülşen-i Mûsiki school in his home. He wrote Usûl-i Ta'lîm-i Kemân, considered the first violin method of Turkish music; he composed more than 200 works and trained M. Ekrem Karadeniz.[1, 2]
Institutions: He taught theory in the Eastern Music Department of the Dârülbedâyi, opened in 1914; he became theory teacher at the Dârülelhan, founded on the basis of the conservatory proposal he submitted in 1916.
Tone system: Türk Mûsikîsinin Nazariye ve Esasları (1983), begun with his student Ekrem Karadeniz, treats music on the basis of physics and mathematics and rests on a scale of 41 intervals.
Teaching: He wrote a violin method titled Usûl-i Ta'lîm-i Kemân; from 1918 to 1927 he ran the Gülşen-i Mûsiki school in his home, where pieces were taught by beating the usul.
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