Initiated by Queen Elizabeth I upon sending the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III an organ, Anglo-Ottoman music-historical relations date back to the sixteenth century. Such interactions continued during the Nizam-ı Cedid (New Order) period of the eighteenth century and became more frequent in the nineteenth century, during the modernization movement of the Ottomans. After the establishment of the Muzıka-yı Hümâyûn (The Imperial Music School), the Ottoman Empire began to import many European musical instruments, including pianos, to Ottoman lands. To this end, some English piano manufacturers became the main piano suppliers of the Ottoman Empire. Among them was Kastner & Co. Ltd. According to two archival files identified in the Turkish Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives in Istanbul, an autopiano was bought for Sultan Abdulhamid II from Kastner & Co. of London in 1907. The files include the receipt of the shipped equipment, its description, and a user’s manual, as well as diplomatic manuscripts about the event. This article summarizes the history of Anglo-Ottoman musical interactions up until this historical trade and analyses these archival files within their historical and cultural contexts.

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<p>Stevan Mokranjac, who is among the founders of Serbian national music, came with the Belgrade Choral Society to Ottoman lands to give a concert in 1895, during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II. Mokranjac’s visit is important both in terms of presenting the developments in Western music area in Ottoman Empire as well as showing the diplomatic interactions of the two countries in relation to music. In this concerts it is observed that the Western music performance and composition practices that the Ottomans initiated during 19. century were adopted by the Serbian musicians. Moreover, the constructional similarities and interactions in institutionalization of Western music in both countries takes attention.</p><p>This article aims to reveal the Ottoman-Serbian musical interaction, about which no specific research was not traced, in line with the composer, musician, conductor Stevan Mokranjac, who is not very well known in Turkish music history, and Belgrad Choral Society’s Istanbul visit through the support of historical documents obtained by archival research.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Özet</strong></p><p>Sırp ulusal müziğinin kurucularından Stevan Mokranjac, Belgrad Koro Topluluğu’yla birlikte 1895 yılında, Sultan II. Abdülhamid’in hükümdarlığı döneminde konser vermek üzere Osmanlı topraklarına gelmiştir. Mokranjac’in bu ziyareti hem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Batı müziği alanındaki gelişmeleri gözler önüne sermek hem de iki ülke arasındaki diplomatik ilişkilerin müzik bağlamında etkileşimini göstermek bakımından önemlidir. Bu konserlerde Osmanlı’nın 19. yüzyılda temellerini attığı Batı müziği icra ve yaratı geleneklerinin Sırp müzisyenlerce adapte edildiği gözlemlenmiştir. Ayrıca iki ülkenin Batı müziği yapılanmasındaki kurumsal benzerlikler ve etkileşimler dikkat çekmektedir.</p><p>Bu makale, bugüne kadar hakkında hiç yayın tespit edilememiş Osmanlı-Sırp müzik ilişkilerini, yine Türk müzik tarihinde tanınmayan ve araştırılmamış besteci, müzisyen, şef Stevan Mokranjac’ın korosuyla İstanbul ziyareti düzleminde, konuyla ilgili tarihsel belgeleri arşiv çalışması ile ortaya koyarak gözler önüne sermeyi hedeflemektedir.</p>

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