Donizetti Pasha, who served Ottoman music for 28 years


 Italian-born musician Giuseppe Donizetti, Sultan II. He came to the Ottoman palace during the reign of Mahmud. Donizetti, who played a major role in the development of the first Turkish band, Mızıka-yı Hümayun, set foot in Istanbul at the invitation of the sultan and pioneered groundbreaking developments in Turkish music for 28 years. Donizetti, who made Turkish music polyphonic, Sultan II. He composed the "Mahmudiye March" for Mahmud and the "Mecidiye March" for Sultan Abdülmecid.


HE RECEIVED FIRST MUSIC EDUCATION FROM FAMILY

Growing up in a family of musicians, Donizetti took flute lessons from his uncle Carini Donizetti in Bergamo. He wanted to attend the newly opened Lezioni Caritatevoli di Musica school in Bergamnoi for his first music lessons, but he was 17 years old and was not accepted to the conservatories due to his age.


AT THE AGE OF 20 JOINED THE ARMY OF NAPOLEON

In 1808, at the age of 20, he enlisted in Napoleon Bonaparte's French army. He participated in the Austrian and Spanish campaigns as a soldier in the French army between 1808 and 1813. in Geneva in 1813


HE WAS IN THE ARMY OF NAPOLEON AS BAND CHIEF

He left the French army after Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo on June 19, 1815. Then the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont


HOW DONİZETTİ COME TO OTTOMAN?

He was invited to Istanbul to be the chief of the newly established palace band called Mızıka-yı Hümayun in the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman sultan II. Mahmoud, He reformed the case, abolishing the Janissary Corps under the name of Hayriye, and disbanded the old army; He started to implement a modern military training program with the new army (Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediyye) he founded instead.


Sultan II. MAHMUD INVITED HIM TO ISTANBUL

Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha invited Giuseppe Donizetti, who had experience as a band conductor on the plane to France and Sardinia, for this task.

 For the next 28 years, he led the band organization of the modern army, which was established by the ruler, who worked in the service of the Ottoman State, until his death.







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