طاطيوس أفنديKemani Tatyos Efendi

Life

• Born 1858, Ortaköy, Istanbul^[1,2]
• Died 16 March 1913, Istanbul (cause: cirrhosis of the liver)^[1,2]
• An Armenian of Istanbul; his father was an amateur musician of the Ortaköy church.^[1,2]
• After school in Ortaköy he was apprenticed to a locksmith, then left for music: kanun from his uncle Movses Papazyan, violin from Kemani Kör Sebuh, singing and theory from the brothers Andon and Civan and the singer Asdik Ağa.^[1,2]

Career

• For many years led fasıl concerts, above all at the Pirinççi gazino in Galata, with the singer Karakaş, the tanburi Ovakim and the kanuni Şemsi.^[1,2]
• Played with Ahmed Rasim Bey, Şevki Bey, Kemençeci Vasilaki and Tanburi Cemil Bey; a poet too, he wrote the words of most of his songs.^[1,2]
• Though quick to write music down at first hearing, many of his works were never notated and are lost; his pupils include Arşak Çömlekçiyan and Mustafa Sunar.^[1]

Output, as the sources state it

• Surviving: peşrevs in Karcığar, Suzinak and Rast, saz semais in Hüseyni, Suzinak and Rast, and more than fifty songs.^[1]

Where the sources disagree

• His apprenticeships: a locksmith, then a savat (silver) workshop^[1] · a locksmith and a watchmaker^[2]

Sources

1. Kemani Tatyos Ekserciyan — Wikipedia (English)
2. Tatyos Efendi — Vikipedi (Türkçe)