Cemal Reşit Rey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cemal Reşit Rey

Turkish musician

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1904

Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel

Date of Death: 07-Oct-1985

Profession: screenwriter, composer, conductor, pianist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Cemal Resit Rey (Turkish pronunciation: [d?e'ma? ?e'?it ?ej]; 25 October 1904 – 7 October 1985) was a Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor.
He was well known for a string of successful and popular Turkish-language operettas for which his brother Ekrem Resit Rey (1900–1959) wrote the librettos.He was born on 25 October 1904 in Jerusalem and died on 7 October 1985 in Istanbul.
He was one of the five pioneers of Western classical music in Turkey known as 'The Turkish Five' in the first half of the 20th century.
Notable students include Yüksel Koptagel, a Turkish composer and pianist.