Dimitrie Cantemir

A Romanian scholar, musicographer, composer and theorist whose major contribution to the history of music was "Descriptio Moldaviae" and "An Introduction to Turkish music". (The latter has been lost.) Cantemir collected and wrote about Turkish theories of music as well as the musical folk traditions of Romania. Although he lived during the Baroque period musically, Dimitrie was a Renaissance individual with polylinguistic skills and a student of diverse cultures and cultural phenomena. ~ Keith Johnson