Mehmed V
In 1909, when Sultan Reşâd came to the Imperial throne with the name of Mehmed V, an open competition was called for deciding the new official march of the Sultan. To be chosen was Italo Selvelli's polyphonic composition, since then known as the "Reşadiye Marşı" ("March of Mehmed V Resad"). This march was actually the last official personal march of a Sultan in the history of the Ottoman Empire, as the subsequent and final Sultan Mehmed VI, who ascended the throne in 1918 in a difficult political situation, refused to adopt a personal march.