Abstract:

Mehmet Baha Pars, the subject of the research, was born in Bursa, Karaseyh neighborhood in 1877, as the son of Şeyh Hacı Baha Efendi and Halime Hanım. He is teacher and poet. The magazine "Alem-i Musiki", which he published, is the first Ottoman music magazine published in the Ottoman Empire. He is also the first Turkish composer to compose an operetta. After completing Bursa High School, he went to Istanbul and graduated from Darüttedris School in Aksaray, where he studied, in 1897. In 1902, he graduated from Alyans İzraelit (Alliance Israélite) in Beyoğlu. When he returned to Bursa, which is back in town, he became the sheikh of the Ahmed Baba Lodge upon his father's death. Besides his duty as a sheikh, he became one of the pioneers of the music movement in the city. In the whole study, archive documents, primary sources, copyright and research works, memories and information shared by Mehmet Baha Pars's acquaintances/relatives in life were used as a primary resources.