Ahmet Yektâ Madran

Ahmet Yektâ Madran (1885-1950) was a composer of Turkish music pieces, school songs, and marches.

Madran trained as a band musician at İzmir Art School and learned to play the clarinet.

After school, he became the instructor for the military band in Edirne, where he received a serious injury to one of his eyes.

After the declaration of the Turkish Republic, Madran was appointed as the conductor of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra, now called the Riyaset-i Cumhur in Ankara.

Madran was part of a group of artists commissioned by Enver Pasha in 1915 to depict the Gallipoli battlefront.