Rauf Yekta Bey
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Rauf Yekta Bey (1871-1935) Turkish musician, musicologist and writer on music. Wrote the first modern account of Turkish classical music available in a Western language ("La Musique turque", in Encyclopedie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire, Premiere partie, Paris, 1922 (written in 1913)).