A show dedicated integrally to the musical compositions of Dimitrie Cantemir will be held, on Thursday, in the famous Palace of Sultans on the banks of the Bosporus. According to international news agencies, the Romanian Cultural Institute “Dimitrie Cantemir” from Istambul brings the attention of the Turkish public back to the remarkable contributions of the Romanian prince to the development of classical Turkish music. The great Romania scholar is unanimously considered as “a classic of Turkish music” in Turkey. During the show, Turkish musicologists will shed light on the musical contributions of Dimitrie Cantemir, know in Turkey under the name of Kantemiroglu, or “son of Cantemir”. The show will include 12 Cantemirian compositions, being supported by the “Kantemir” band of the Conservatory in Istambul, established under this name in 1999, by the professor S. Sehvaroglu. Ruler of Moldova, encyclopedic scholar, writer, Dimitrie Cantemir, born on October 26 1673 in Siliesti, south of Husi, taught at the royal court in Iasi, becomes, at 15, a hostage in Constantinopol, as his father’s guarantee to the High Gate. He would spend 22 years in the ottoman capital and would do various studies with famous professors of the era. The Turks enthroned Dimitrie Cantemir in Iasi, in 1710, trusting him, but the new ruler-scholar signs a secret treaty with Peter the Great in Lutk in 1711, wishing to be freed from the Turks. The Russian-Moldovan armies were drastically defeated at Stanilesti, on the Prut, with the scholar ruler having to flee to Russia with his family and 400 other Moldovans, amongst which Ion Neculce. He remained in Russia until his death, in 1723. Only in 1935, the bones of the voievode were brought and laid in Iasi.