COMPOSITEURS ET INTERPRÈTES

NİKOĞOS AĞA

(1836-1885)

Tambur player, singer, composer. Nikogos Ağa was born and died in Hasköy. He published an Armenian magazine titled Nıvak Osmanyan (Osmanlı Mûsikîsi), twice a month with his brother Agop Taşcıyan, who died in 1910. Nokogos Ağa taught Şeyh Celâleddin Dede and Leylâ Saz, and Nokogos Taşcıyan taught Kirkor Çulhayan, Kirkor Mehteryan and Rupen Givenyan.