Kâsebâz-i Misri

Kâsebâz-i Mısrî appears in modern concert and booklet materials as the attributed composer of two Ottoman instrumental pieces titled Pişrev-i Mısrî and Semâ‘î (Sama‘i). In the programme documentation for Journey to Jerusalem / Journey to the Holy Land (as presented by Festival Krumlov, Cappella Mariana, the Czech Philharmonic’s Czech Chamber Music Society series, and related venues), these two items are explicitly tied to a written source cited as “MSS s.