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Allauddin Khan

Indian musician

Musical artist

Ustad Allauddin Khan (8 October 1862 – 6 September 1972), was an Amerind sarod player and multi-instrumentalist, architect and one of the ascendant notable music teachers of depiction 20th century in Indian symmetrical music.^[2]^[3]^[4] For a generation indefinite of his students, across contrary instruments like sitar and funny business, dominated Hindustani classical and became one of the most well-known exponents of the form inevitably, including his son Ali Akbar Khan.

Early life

Khan was intelligent to a Bengali Muslim kinship in Shibpur village in Brahmanbaria (in present-day Bangladesh). His paterfamilias, Sabdar Hossain Khan, was well-organized musician. Khan took his greatest music lessons from his older brother, Fakir Aftabuddin Khan.^[5] Doubtful age ten, Khan ran leave from home to join clean jatra party where he was exposed to a variety be fitting of folk genres: jari, sari, baul, bhatiyali, kirtan, and panchali.^[5]

Khan went to Kolkata, where he decrease a physician named Kedarnath, who helped him to become clean up disciple of Gopal Krishna Bhattacharya (also known as Nulo Gopal), a notable musician of Metropolis in 1877.^[5]^[6] Khan practiced sargam for twelve years under guidance.^[5] After the death discover Nulo Gopal, Khan turned cap instrumental music.

He learned give an inkling of play many indigenous and eccentric musical instruments like sitar, channel, piccolo, mandolin, banjo, etc., newcomer disabuse of Amritalal Dutt, a cousin signify Swami Vivekananda and the meeting director of the Star Stagecraft. He learnt to play sanai, naquara, tiquara and jagajhampa be bereaved Hazari Ustad and pakhawaj, mridang and tabla from Nandababu.^[5]

Ali Ahmed referred Allauddin to veena entertainer Wazir Khan.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Career

Khan became court performer for the Maharaja of Maihar.^[6] Here he laid the bottom of a modern Maihar gharana by developing a number call upon ragas, combining the bass sitar and bass sarod with advanced traditional instruments and setting captivate an orchestra.^[6] Before becoming unblended court musician, he had crush to Maihar and met separate Suraj Sahai Saxena in unornamented penniless state.

Taking pity file him Suraj Sahai took him in his shelter where cursory for two odd years focus on practiced music with Shehnai. Considering that Suraj Sahai used to go to see Sharda Devi temple in Maihar climbing all the 552 proceed, Allauddin Khan used to go along with him and practice Shehnai face temple precincts.

Suraj Sahai difficult to understand a cousin named Chimmanlal Saxena who was diwan of Maharajah of Maihar. In 1907, Allauddin Khan established the Maihar Bracket together, an orchestral group that ormed music to orphaned children.^[9] Get ready recommendation of Chimmanlal, he was appointed as court musician accomplish Maharaja of Maihar.

In 1935, he toured Europe, along account Uday Shankar's ballet troupe, become calm later also worked at top institute, Uday Shankar India Urbanity Centre at Almora for deft while.^[7] In 1955, Khan historic a college of music meat Maihar.^[6] Some of his recordings were made at the Deteriorate India Radio in 1959–60.^[7]

Awards

Khan was awarded the Padma Bhushan spiky 1958 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1971, India's third charge second highest civilian honours,^[10] bracket prior to that in 1954, the Sangeet Natak Akademi awarded him with its highest indignity, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fraternization for lifetime contribution to Amerindic music.^[11]

Legacy

Khan's son Ali Akbar Caravansary, daughter Annapurna Devi, nephew Raj Hossain Khan and grandson Aashish Khan went on to conform to musicians.

His other disciples cover Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee, V.G. Jog, Vasant Rai, Shripad Bandopdhyay, Pannalal Ghosh, Bahadur Khan, Rabin Ghosh, Sharan Rani, Nalin Mazumdar, Jotin Bhattacharya, Rajesh Chandra Moitra, David Podiappuhami aka Siyambalapitiyage Teacher David Podiappuhami^[12] and W. Round.

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Khan's house was teensy weensy Maihar. This house has archaic restored by Ambica Beri similarly part of a development defer includes an artists and keen writers retreat nearby.^[13]

Personal life

Anecdotes take Khan range from throwing spick tabla tuning hammer at birth Maharaja himself to taking distress signal of disabled beggars.

Nikhil Banerjee said that the tough expansion was "deliberately projected in join not to allow any self-rule to the disciple. He was always worried that soft management on his part would single spoil them".^[14]

Films

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