Abstract:

Rauf Yekta Bey has an important position in the history of Ottoman/Turkish music as an music scientist, theorist and archivist of the late Ottoman and early Republican periods. Various studies have been carried out on Rauf Yekta Bey's biography, which was also the precursor to our article. With the opening of the archive of Rauf Yekta Bey, which has been closed to researchers for more than 80 years after his death, new unknown data have emerged regarding both his working life and his personal life. When the documents that came out after the study of his personal archive were examined, it was necessary to make additions to Rauf Yekta Bey's biography and to construct a biography by reviewing some of the narratives. However, the documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives, the scanning of the newspapers of the period and the recent researches necessitated the rewriting of Rauf Yekta Bey's biography. In this article, the biography of Rauf Yekta Bey has been reconsidered in line with all the new documents.