Ottoman Military band in RUSSIA Red Army Choir Ceddin Deden (Ottoman Janissary March)

"Otto" is a masculine German given name. It originates as an Old High German. It is believed that individual instrumentalists may have been mentioned in the 8th century Orkhon inscriptions.[1][2][3][4] Such military bands as the mehters, however, were not definitively mentioned until the 13th century.[5] It is believed that the first "mehter" was sent to Osman I by the Selcuk Sultan. The notion of a military marching band, such as those in use even today, began to be borrowed from the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. The sound associated with the mehter also exercised an influence on European classical music, with composers such as Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven all writing compositions inspired by or designed to imitate the music of the mehters.[6]