AN APPLICATION IN THE MUSIC REVOLUTION; THE ANKARA STATE CONSERVATORY, THE SCHOOL OF MUSICAL
MÜZİK İNKILÂBINDA BİR UYGULAMA; MUSİKİ MUALLİM MEKTEBİ’NDEN, ANKARA DEVLET KONSERVATUARI’NA

Author : Derya ÇİNİ ŞİMŞEK
Number of pages : 241-251

Abstract

Ankara State Conservatory in the Early Years of the Republic Historically, Turks have had close relations with many cultures in the past. The results of these cultural relations naturally reflected in the field of music. A comprehensive orientation to European music, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk began in 1923 with the establishment of modern Turkey. While Atatürk has gained modern and contemporary organizations for the new Turkish State, he brought a new vision for the development and progress of the new Turkish art in contemporary sense and in 1924 Muski Muallim Mektebi was opened in Ankara. The school started with three old buildings in Cebeci, and the first director of the school was the Presidential Orchestra Chief Osman Zeki Üngör. Teachers and orchestral artists were educated in western schools for years, and some talented young musicians were sent to various cities in Europe to continue their studies in music. The Ministry of Education's National Music and Representative Academy's law design was accepted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on 25 June 1934 with 2541 numbers. German composer Paul Hindemith was suggestion, Musiki Muallim Mektebi was transformed into the Ankara State Conservatory in 1936. Lectures at the Conservatory began on November 1, 1936. In 1938, the Department of Music Education was separated from the conservatory by connecting to the Gazi Educational Institute, and in 1940, it was accepted as a conservatory directorship and entered into force. Until 1982, the Ankara State Conservatory, which provided education under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, was taken into the scope of the Higher Education Institution in the same year and was connected to Hacettepe University.

Keywords

Musiki Muallim Mektebi, Conservatoire, Music, Turkish Republic

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