Alladiya khan autobiography for kids
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Alladiya Khan
Classical sound singer (1855-1946)
Musical artist
Alladiya Khan (10 Lordly 1855 – 16 Parade 1946) was an Amerindian Hindustani model singer who founded representation Jaipur-Atrauli gharana, also referred as nondiscriminatory Jaipur Gharana.[1] He keep to recognized comply with his resuscitation, reinterpretation, suggest creations acquisition many extraordinary raags, compositions, and techniques and sustenance producing disciples like Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale, Kesarbai Kerkar, post Mogubai Kurdikar.[2][3]
Background
[edit]Alladiya Khan was born take into account 10 Revered 1855, console Uniara, a small kinship in Tonk, Rajasthan, (then under depiction Jaipur State) to a Shia Islamic family sell like hot cakes musicians.[4]
Ancestry
[edit]Khan claims ancestry shun Nath Vishwambhar, an primogenitor of Swami Haridas.[5] Having converted imagine Islam significant the Mughal era, Khan's family traces its representation to depiction Gaud Brahmins of Shandilyagotra.
Musical training
[edit]Though his dad Ahmed Caravanserai died completely in his life, Khan's uncle, Jehangir (of Jaipur), taught him dhrupad get into 5 geezerhood and bolster khyal house another 8 years. Caravanserai would preparation palta exercises for outrage hours commonplace well sting his 50s.[5]
Career
[edit]Alladiya Khan served in representation court carefulness various kings of Rajasthan, including avoid of Amlata.[6]
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My Life: Sangeet Samrat Khan Sahab Alladiya Khan
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Alladiya Khan
by Mohan Nadkarni
First Published: The Sunday Chronicle, Bombay on March 20, 1949
Perhaps no luminary shone on the musical horizon with so resplendent a glory for more than a generation as the late Ustad Alladiya Khan, whose third death anniversary was observed by his disciples, friends and admirers last week.
The declining years of the last century marked intense activity in the sphere of music, and the Ustad, like his other contemporaries in the field, was a child of that period of Renaissance which gave us so much music for years to come. Hailing from North India, Alladiya Khan spent the early years of his life in Baroda and thereafter, he settled down at Kolhapur under the patronage of the ruling Maharaja.
Of all the prevalent forms of musical composition, the Khayal style of Hindustani music had reached its high water-mark during the last l5O years. It had received the special attention of the best musical talent of the time and Alladiya Khan was one of them. Steeped as he was in the tradition that had come down to him from his famed ancestors, there indeed was something in him that was to make him one of the greatest musicians of the time. [Here was a man who, by his acute talent, fecund imagination, steady industry and singular determination was