"Donizetti Pasha remembered yesterday in Istanbul
A ceremony in honor of the 150th anniversary of the death of Italian composer Giuseppe Donizetti was carried out yesterday in Istanbul's historic Saint Esprit Cathedral in Beyoglu, where the 19th century musician was buried. Known through Turkey and the Levant as Giuseppe Donizetti Pasha, Donizetti was the instructor general of music in the court of Ottoman Sultan Mahmut II, and played an instrumental role in the introduction of European music into the Ottoman world. "
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