NAZMI BOSNA: HIS LIFE, WORKS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLASSICAL GUITAR EDUCATION

The aim of this study is to give information about the life and works of Nazmi Bosna, and to reveal his contributions to guitar education. In this descriptive study, data were collected through literature review, interview and document review. The works of Nazmi Bosna were identified and these works were analyzed via document analysis within the scope of the study. Bosna’s works were tabulated according to the name of the work, time signature, tonality and, if any, the person or people to whom the work is dedicated. The results displayed that Bosna began his guitar education by studying classical guitar with Ziya Aydıntan, and continued his academic classical guitar education as a student of Miguel Rubio in Bern Conservatory in Switzerland. Also, he made his first composition in 1963, and has continued to compose since then. Similarly, Bosna wrote 9 books, and 8 of them included 230 compositions of different tonality and genre. He also has a book, Guitar Applied Harmony Teaching. He contributed to guitar education with his own works and with the students he trained. Last but not the least, it was found that Bosna was a composer who had the most original works published for solo classical guitar in Turkey.