Hammâmî zâde İsmâil Dede Efendi's life and ferah-fezâ of classical

The music, is a spiritual need for people. It is an important factor in ensuring the unity and the solidarity in the community. Although the necessary concern and care is not being shown to our music today, our music has a long history and it is not possible to remain among the misty clouds.Important musical personalities played a major role in making such a long history of our music. An one of these personalities is Hammâmî-zâde İsmâil Dede Efendi.Dede Efendi, who is cited along with such names like Derviş İsmâil Dede, Dede Efendi, Hammâmî-zâde İsmâil Dede Efendi of the Turkish Music and who is also a Mevlevî Dervish, lived between the years of 1778-1846 and is a composer of the last period of our Classical Music. Dede Efendi, whose composership is shown in a level of ``genius?? by the music authorities, began music from an early age, took a very good musical education, played music with the masters of music of his epoch and learnt to play almost all of the musical works with their accuracies composed during the previous periods. The works of Dede Efendi are very valuable in respect of both sampling of the accumulation of his predecessors within this field, and the sampling of the innovative approaches of our genius composers and the fine thoughts, feellings and inventions.In the first part of our study consisted of two parts, information was given about the life of Dede Efendi. And in the second part, information was given about the musical mode of Ferah-Fezâ and the Works of this mode have been analyzed in respect of form and mode.At the end of the study conclusive findings have been obtained regarding the personal style of Dede and the genius mastery of Dede in the field of music has been proven once again.Key Words: Dede Efendi, Mode of Ferah-Fezâ, Form, Analysis.