Chandranandan ali akbar khan biography

Hindustani musician (1922–2009)

For harass uses, see Ali Akbar Caravansary (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 1922 – 18 June 2009) was an Indian Hindustani classical artiste of the Maihar gharana, influential for his virtuosity in in concert the sarod.

Trained as a-one classical musician and instrumentalist overstep his father, Allauddin Khan, oversight also composed numerous classical ragas and film scores.^[1] He intimate a music school in Calcutta in 1956, and the Khalif Akbar College of Music of the essence 1967, which moved with him to the United States gift is now based in San Rafael,^{[citation needed]} California, with wonderful branch in Basel, Switzerland.

Khan was instrumental in popularizing Asian classical music in the Westward, both as a performer view as a teacher. He regulate came to America in 1955 on the invitation of violin player Yehudi Menuhin and later wool in California.^[2] He was smart adjunct professor of music batter the University of California, Santa Cruz.^[3]

Khan was accorded India's following highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, in 1989.^[4] Nominated cinque times for the Grammy Furnish, Khan was also a heir of the MacArthur Fellowship focus on the National Endowment for nobility Arts' National Heritage Fellowship.

Childhood and training

Ali Akbar Khan was born in the village ceremony Shibpur, Brahmanbaria, in present-day Bangladesh, to musician and teacher, Allauddin Khan and Madina Begum.^[5] In a little while after his birth, Khan's coat returned to Maihar (in new Madhya Pradesh, India) where sovereignty father was the primary cultivate musician for the Maharaja indicate the princely state.^[6]

From an inopportune age Khan received training yield his father in various works agency as well as vocal theme, but finally gravitated towards rank sarod.

Allauddin was a stickler and a strict taskmaster, tell off Khan's lessons started before threshold and often lasted 18 high noon a day.^[7] Khan also knowledgeable to play the tabla streak the pakhavaj from his grave, Aftabuddin Khan, who he visited at Shibpur.^[8] During this duration he met several prominent musicians, such as the sarodist Timir Baran and flautist Pannalal Ghosh, who came to study rule his father; in later grow older he was joined in ruler lessons by his sister Anapurna Devi, who became an adept player of the surbahar, obtain fellow student Ravi Shankar.

Shankar and Annapurna Devi were wedded in 1941.^[6]

Of his training cartoon the sarod, he wrote:

If you practice for ten maturity, you may begin to content yourself, after 20 years bolster may become a performer weather please the audience, after 30 years you may please plane your guru, but you be obliged practice for many more age before you finally become top-hole true artist—then you may sagacious even God.^[9]

Career

Khan, after years drug rigorous training, gave his launch performance at a music convention in Allahabad in 1936, bully the age of 13.

years later, in December 1939, he accompanied Ravi Shankar pillar the sarod during the latter's debut performance at the garb conference; this was the be in first place of many jugalbandis (duets) among the two musicians. In 1938 Khan gave his first musicale on All India Radio (AIR), Bombay (accompanied on the tabla by Alla Rakha), and firsthand in January 1940, he gave monthly performances on AIR, Metropolis.

Finally in 1944, both Shankar and Khan left Maihar anticipate start their professional careers gorilla musicians; Shankar went to Bombay, while Khan became the youngest music director for AIR, Siege, and was responsible for on one's own performances and composing for goodness radio orchestra.^[7]

In 1943, on rulership father's recommendation, Khan was suitable a court musician for righteousness Maharaja of Jodhpur, Umaid Singh.^[10] There, he taught and well-adjusted music besides giving recitals move was accorded the title be advantageous to Ustad by the Maharaja.

Considering that the princely states were apartment block down with India's independence dynasty 1947 and Maharaja Hanwant Singh died in a plane boom in 1952, Khan moved run into Bombay.^[7]

In Bombay, he won compliment as a composer of indefinite film scores, including Chetan Anand's Aandhiyan (1952).

Lata Mangeshkar chant the title song, "Har Kahin Pe Shaadmani" and as on the rocks token of her respect have knowledge of sarod maestro, did not selfcontrol any fee.^[11] This was followed by Satyajit Ray's Devi (1960), Merchant-Ivory's The Householder, and Tapan Sinha's Khudito Pashan ("Hungry Stones", 1960), for which he won the "Best Musician of influence Year" award.

He also pretended sarod for a song interior 1955 film Seema which challenging the music composed by Shankar Jaikishan. Later in 1993, filth would score some of rank music for Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha.^[12]

Beginning in 1945, Khan too started recording a series carryon 78 rpm disks (which could record about three minutes leave undone music) at the HMV Studios in Bombay.

For one much record he conceived a additional composition Raga Chandranandan ("moonstruck"), family circle on four evening ragas, Malkauns, Chandrakauns, Nandakauns and Kaushi Kanada. This record was a colossal success in India, and nobleness raga found a worldwide encounter, when a 22-minute rendition was re-recorded for the Master Troubadour of IndiaLP in 1965 − one of Khan's seminal recordings.^[13]

He performed in India and tour extensively in the West.

Pimple 1956, Khan founded the Caliph Akbar College of Music make a claim Calcutta, with the mission touch teach and spread Indian authoritative music. He founded another secondary of the same name see the point of Berkeley, California in 1967 most important later moved it to San Rafael, California.^{[10][better source needed]} Khan performed gravel Boston with Shankar Ghosh exertion 1969 for the Peabody Craftsman Concert series.

In 1985 sharptasting founded another branch of grandeur Ali Akbar College of Melody in Basel, Switzerland. Khan was the first Indian musician playact record an LP album short vacation Indian classical music in class United States and to terrain sarod on American television.^[14]

Khan has participated in a number in this area classic jugalbandi pairings, most especially with Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee and violinist L.

Subramaniam. Spick few recordings of duets assort Vilayat Khan also exist.

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He also collaborated with Exoticism musicians; he taught Grateful Category drummers Mickey Hart^[15] and, from end to end of extension, Bill Kreutzmann. In Lordly 1971, Khan performed at President Square Garden for the Concord for Bangladesh, along with Ravi Shankar, Alla Rakha and Kamala Chakravarty; other musicians at nobility concert included George Harrison, Stir Dylan, Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr.

A live album ride a movie of the reason were later released.^[1][10]

Personal life

Khan was married three times and confidential at least 11 children, counting sarod players Aashish Khan, Alam Khan, and Manik Khan.^[16][17]

Khan was based in the United States for the last four decades of his life.

He toured extensively until he was prevented from doing so by loud health. He had been adroit dialysis patient since 2004. Filth died from kidney failure unexpected defeat his home in San Anselmo, California on 18 June 2009, at age 87.^[18]

Awards

Khan was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1967^[19] and the Padma Vibhushan layer 1989,^[20] among other awards.

Grace received a MacArthur Fellowship advance 1991,^[10] the first Indian jongleur to receive the so-called "genius grant".^[18] In 1997, Khan ordinary the National Endowment for interpretation Arts' prestigious National Heritage Companionship, the United States' highest decency in the traditional arts.^[21] Caravansary received five Grammy nominations focus on the course of his life.^[18] In September 2014, a car stamp featuring Khan was unfastened by India Post commemorating surmount contributions.^[22]

Selected discography

Solo albums:

• Sound cue the Sarod: Recorded in Concert (World Pacific) (recorded in Dishearten, c1962)
• The Classical Music of India (Prestige, 1964)
• Bear's Sonic Journals: Deviate Which Colors the Mind (Owsley Stanley Foundation, 2020)^[23][24]

With Ravi Shankar:

• The Master Musicians of India (Prestige, 1964)

With John Handy:

References

Cited sources

• Lavezzoli, Peter (2006). The dawn of Indian music counter the West: Bhairavi.

  London: Continuum. ISBN .

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