COMPOSERS AND PERFORMERS

ASADUR AĞA

(?-1904)

Armenian composer, musician. The composition, Isfahân Aksak Şarkı, is his work: “Tutdum âteşler içindê meskeni”. His middle name was Agop (Hagop) and he was a singer and also played piano. He died in Istanbul and was buried at the Balıklı Armenian cemetery. (Arevelyan Mamul = Şark Basını, İzmir 1904, no.37, p.912; TMA, I, 73; Hanende, 618b; Gülzâr-ı Mûsikî, 898a).