إسماعيل دده أفنديHammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi

Life

• Born 9 January 1778, Şehzadebaşı, Istanbul^[1,2]
• Died 29 November 1846, Mecca, on the pilgrimage (cause: cholera)^[1,2]
• «Hammamizade», son of the bath-keeper: his father ran a hammam.^[2]
• From the age of eight studied with Uncuzade Mohamed Amin Efendi; learned the ney at the Yenikapı Mevlevi lodge under Ali Nutki Dede and became a «Dede» himself.^[1,2]

Career

• His first song, composed during his retreat, drew Sultan Selim III; he became the Sultan's companion and chief muezzin, and Mahmud II kept supporting him.^[1,2]
• Taught at the palace Enderun school and at Yenikapı; his pupils include Zekâi Dede, Dellalzade İsmail Efendi, Eyyubî Mehmed Bey, and Hamparsum Limonciyan, maker of the Hamparsum notation.^[1,2]
• Created the composite makams sultanî yegâh, nev-eser, saba-buselik, hicaz-buselik and araban kürdî; his seven Mevlevi ayins are counted his greatest works, and «Yine bir gülnihal» the first Turkish waltz song.^[1]

Output, as the sources state it

• Hundreds of songs and Mevlevi rituals; more than two hundred of his compositions survive.^[1]

Where the sources disagree

• When he joined the Mevlevi lodge: became a «Dede» in 1799^[1] · bound to Ali Nutki Dede in 1798^[2]

Sources

1. Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi — Wikipedia (English)
2. Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi — Vikipedi (Türkçe)