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Long lost Fortune

Every book has a story. The story of this book in your hands is quite interesting. The adventure of this book in your hands is quite interesting. This interesting album, that I bought from an auction on April 23, 2018, is a convolute of various compositions with a velvet and and guild decorated covers were quite remarkable and beautiful. The notes of compositions were printed in Istanbul by Duhancı and Notacı Mehmet Emin Efendi. When I got the album in hand and did some research on it, I asked the bookseller where he got it from. He explained that it came from the noble Guillaume family living in Belgium. According to him, the family wanted to sell old books from an old depot and asked him to look at it. Based on the information we received from the booksellerKeerssemaker, who sells books at an auction, the research suggests that the was from a Grandmother Euphrosine, a confidant of the Romanian queen, and that the Album may have come from there. Euphrosyne, who married Jean Gustave-Paul Guillaume, was likely to have brought this Album from Romania. It is immediately evident from the golden embroideries on the velvet on the skin covers that this is a palace work. The experts we contacted highlighted the possibility that this could only have been made by Sultan Abdulhamid and gifted to the head of state of another country (here, the Queen of Romania). Of course, even if all these assumptions seem plausible, we will not be able to prove them without producing a document. But as Evren Kutlay put it in his article, when Sultan Abdülhamid’s interest in western piano music combined with the interest to the eastern music of Queen of Romania, Carmen Silviya, this album was undoubtedly a cooperation of Both Royals. We can guess that he Sultan gave this music album as a gift. How Euphrosyne got it, is another unknown fact but it can be guessed that the queen gave her as a gift to her beloved servant. Yıldız University lecturer and musician pianist Evren Kutlay, who examined the musical works in the album, convinced me that the album is a very unique work and that it should be published by stating that some of the music tracks in the album were seen for the first time here. She wrote about Sultan Abdülhamid’s interest in the music world and his observations about this album in the introduction part of the book. Euphrosine (dame d’Honneur de la Reine de Roumanie), the close friend and servant of Queen Elizabeth of Romania, get possibly this Music album as a wedding gift by the Queen when she married Belgian Charges d’affaire in Budapest Paul Guillaume in 1882. Lady Euphrosine passed away in 1914. The Queen died in Romania in 1916, two years later. Two years after that, Sultan Abdulhamid died in 1918. In 2018, after a hiatus of 100 years (this Romania, Belgium and Turkey in connection Album) sold. And it is published in 2020 as a print. A story that says nothing is a coincidence in life. I would like to thank the pianist mrs. Evren Kutlay who has evaluated the album’s content and has written the valuable introduction to this book. Mehmet Tütüncü

Long Lost Fortune: A Music Album as a Gift from Sultan Abdülhamid II to Queen Elizabeth of Romania Introduction, facsimile and explanations. SOTA 2020, 130 pages, 21x29 cm. Harbdound Edited by / Yayına hazırlayan : Mehmet Tütüncü Introduction /Giriş : Evren Kutlay CORPUS OF TURKISH ISLAMIC INSCRIPTIONS nr.23 Graphic Designer: Omer Erdem omerdem@me.com ISBN 978-90-6921-27-8 SOTA / Research Centre for Tukish and Arabic World Brabantlaan 26 2101 SG Heemstede Netherlands Tel: + 31 23 5292883 Email: sotapublishing@gmail.com Price € 60 excl. Shipping costs Languaes English and Turkish paralel tekst and facsimile reproduction. https://www.academia.edu/49009746/Long_lost_Fortune