{{Infobox musical artist | name = Mesut Cemil | image = 1932 12 07 Cumhuriyet Mesut Cemil.jpg | background = Non vocal instrumentalist | birth_date = 1902 | birth_place = Ottoman Empire | death_date = {{death year and age|1963|1902}} | death_place = Turkey | genre = Ottoman classical, Turkish makam | occupation = Composer | instruments = Tanbur, cello, violin }}

'''Mesut Cemil''' ({{IPA|tr|mesut dʒemil|pron}}; 1902 – October 31, 1963) was a Turkish composer, and a notable ''tanbur'' lute and cello player. His father was Tanburi Cemil Bey.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Seeman |first=Sonia Tamar |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sounding_Roman/A8SbDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Sounding Roman: Representation and Performing Identity in Western Turkey |date=2019-06-14 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-085315-0 |pages=173, 184 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Zeeuw |first=Hans de |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Ottoman_Tanb%C3%BBr/abB1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The Ottoman Tanbûr: The Long-Necked Lute of Ottoman Art Music |date=2022-06-09 |publisher=Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-1-80327-107-1 |pages=86–88 |language=en}}</ref>

He participated in the 1932 Cairo Congress of Arab Music.

Cemil took cello and violin lessons and attended Berlin Music Academy as a student of cello. In 1927 he began to work at the Istanbul Radio, eventually becoming director of the station.<ref name=":0" /> Cemil was assigned to most of the positions in the Radio, including announcer, producer and head of music broadcasts, as well as working as a tanbur performer. Cemil formed the Classical Choir at the Ankara Radio. He retired in 1960, but continued conducting choirs at the Istanbul Radio.

== See also == * List of composers of classical Turkish music

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