Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat

Turkish composer

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1923

Place of Birth: Malatya, Turkey

Date of Death: 16-Oct-2014

Profession: writer, composer, lawyer, poet, painter, poet lawyer

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ertugrul Oguz Firat (1 February 1923 in Malatya – 16 October 2014 in Ankara) was a Turkish composer, painter and poet. Firat graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in law in 1948 and held a career as a judge until his retirement in 1979. All through his life, Firat was involved in the arts: music, writing, painting.
He began to compose music and write his first poems and stories in the early 1940s, and took up painting in 1960.