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and presentation, often going from fast to slow compositions in the same raga. He is remembered for his great legacy of innovation, questioning tradition without rejecting it outright, resulting in music in touch with the roots of Indian culture, especially the folk music of Madhya
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emerged as a treatment for tuberculosis, and
Gandharva began to take it. Gradually, helped by excellent medical support and care from wife Bhanumati, he recovered and began singing again. However, his voice and singing style would always bear the scars of his illness: one of his lungs had been
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Gandharva was a musicologist as well. During his illness, when he was advised complete rest, he spent time contemplating different aspects of music. He had his own thoughts about many different ragas, styles of rendition, and different types of composition.
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Gandharva died on 12 January 1992, at his Dewas residence, Madhya
Pradesh after a long history of lung infection ailment for decades. He was cremated with full state honors and his funeral was attended by hundreds of music lovers from all over the country.
188:. His mastery of technique and musical knowledge was so rapid that Gandharva himself was teaching at the school before he had turned 20. By his early 20s, Gandharva was seen as a star of music and was praised by critics.
308:'s assistant in the 1950s but later devoted himself fully to his role as an accompanist to classical singing until his death in the late 1970s. Gandharva had friendly relations with the noted Marathi literary couple
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family. By the age of five, he had already shown signs of a musical prodigy and first appeared on stage at the age of 10. When he was 11, his father sent him to study music under the well-known classical teacher,
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His first post-recovery concert took place in 1953. The illness greatly affected
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features the life of
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Gandharva Biography – Childhood, Life History, Contribution
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His style of singing attracted considerable controversy. Veteran singer
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Some of Gandharva's musical philosophy is carried forward by his son
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386:'Hans Akela' is a 78 minutes documentary on Kumar Gandharva made by
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rendered useless, so he had to adapt to singing with a single lung.
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Singing Emptiness: Kumar Gandharva performs the poetry of Kabir
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dedicated doctors, and Bhanumati's nursing, he recovered.
587:"Hindustani classical music maestro Kumar Gandharva dies"
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in 1977 and India's second-highest civilian honour, the
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is a title given to him when he was a child prodigy; a
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commemorating his contributions to Hindustani music.
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4161:Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkali ‘Kumar Gandharva’
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423:. Culturalindia.net. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
648:. Kabirproject.org. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
554:"Vocalist Mukul Shivputra to tour south India"
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281:and daughter, as well as by students such as
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614:"Continuing a thousand-year-old tradition"
4837:Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in arts
4139:V. V. Swarna Venkatesa Deekshithar (1986)
3647:Thenpattinam Ponnusamy Meenakshi Sundaran
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159:is a musical spirit in Hindu mythology.
37:Gandharva on a 2014 stamp sheet of India
4832:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts
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746:The Musical Journey of Kumar Gandharva
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196:In the late 40s, he was stricken with
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3475:Ronald Carlton Vivian Piadade Noronha
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777:. Popular Prakashan. pp. 70–84.
552:Banerjee, Shoumojit (31 March 2018).
368:was established by the government of
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4068:Tinuvengadu Subramania Pillai (1978)
4050:Embar S. Vijayaraghavachariar (1975)
704:Govind, Ranjani (3 September 2014).
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486:Sreeram, Lakshmi (12 January 2017).
139:Shivaputra Siddharamayya Komkalimath
2782:Anant alias Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe
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53:Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkalimath
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799:An Appreciation of Kumar Gandharva
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4065:Hirjibhai Rustomji Doctor (1977)
3997:Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma
3738:Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
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1658:Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
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3823:Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar
3804:D. Annaswami Bhagavathar (1962)
771:Vamana Hari Deshapande (1989).
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670:Ganesh, Deepa (6 August 2010).
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4852:20th-century Indian educators
3546:Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi
3059:Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani
2963:Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai
2712:T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar
1663:Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey
4872:Recipients of Kalidas Samman
4740:Vinayak Khedekar (2022–2023)
4666:T. K. Kalyanasundaram (2018)
4400:Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra
4078:Purushottam Laxman Deshpande
3374:Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan
2679:award recipients (1970–1979)
1563:Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
612:Paul, G. s (29 April 2017).
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4092:T. P. Kuppiah Pillai (1979)
3192:Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
2475:Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta
2181:Kottayan Katankot Venugopal
2166:Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
1583:Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir
1435:Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
1275:P. Prabhakar Kumaramangalam
1099:Balwant Moreshwar Purandare
10:
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4817:People from Dewas district
4196:T. S. Parthasarathy (1991)
3972:K. C. D. Brahaspati (1970)
3819:Swami Prajnanananda (1963)
3764:Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
3622:Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi
3511:Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi
3384:Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia
3238:Harindranath Chattopadhyay
3107:Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke
3024:Gulestan Rustom Billimoria
2978:Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme
2552:Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan
2415:Pandurang Shastri Athavale
2259:Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
2229:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1719:Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti
1704:A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar
1588:Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri
1578:Kotha Satchidananda Murthy
1365:Pattadakal Venkanna R. Rao
1330:Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
1325:Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda
442:Jha, Fiza (8 April 2020).
323:Gandharva was awarded the
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4609:Vijay Kumar Kichlu (2014)
4337:Kavalam Narayana Panicker
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4124:M. Kirupanandawari (1984)
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4060:Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
3981:Dilip Chandra Vedi (1970)
3913:Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
3876:Ganesh Hari Ranade (1965)
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2772:Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya
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4847:Educators from Karnataka
4544:Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
4538:Rajkumar Singhajit Singh
4254:Ammannur Madhava Chakyar
4009:Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
3846:C. Saraswathi Bai (1964)
3770:Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
3465:Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay
3450:Darab Jehangir Jussawala
3152:Khusro Faramurz Rustamji
3029:Kunhiraman Palat Candeth
2943:Kalindi Charan Panigrahi
2938:Bishnupada Mukhopadhyaya
2928:Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta
2848:Kandathil Mammen Cherian
2792:Viswanatha Satyanarayana
2732:Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar
2577:Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi
2430:Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
2394:S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
2319:Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
1991:Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher
1380:Khusro Faramurz Rustamji
1149:Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
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163:Early life and education
4514:Chandrashekhara Kambara
3991:Krishnarao Phulambrikar
3841:T. L. Venkatarama Aiyar
3657:# Posthumous conferral
3516:Naoroji Pirojsha Godrej
3288:Vennelakanti Raghavayya
3127:Mohinder Singh Randhawa
3034:Ram Narayan Chakravarti
2968:Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
2958:Krishnarao Phulambrikar
1734:Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar
1069:Benode Behari Mukherjee
343:Gandharva's first son,
16:Indian classical singer
4857:Singers from Karnataka
4822:Indian music educators
4490:Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
4396:Gursharan Singh (2006)
3955:V. Satyanarayana Sarma
3931:Musiri Subramania Iyer
3561:E. C. George Sudarshan
3501:Harivansh Rai Bachchan
3460:Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi
3399:Arunachala Sreenivasan
3329:Dhirendra Nath Ganguly
3248:M. A. Muthiah Chettiar
3117:Tapishwar Narain Raina
2873:Musiri Subramania Iyer
2234:Rajagopala Chidambaram
2081:Naryana Raghvan Pillai
2011:Hirendranath Mukherjee
1996:Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
1876:Chandra Kisan Daphtary
1821:Montek Singh Ahluwalia
1744:Brihaspati Dev Triguna
1528:Lakshman Shastri Joshi
1518:John Kenneth Galbraith
1493:Suniti Kumar Chatterji
1360:C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao
1205:Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
1104:Akkineni Nageswara Rao
894:S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
366:Kumar Gandharva Samman
179:in a Kannada-speaking
167:Gandharva was born in
132:Pandit Kumar Gandharva
103:Indian classical music
43:Background information
4761:Dulal Roy (2022–2023)
4676:Sadanam Krishnankutty
4466:Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi
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3895:Ashutosh Bhattacharya
3871:Vinayakrao Patwardhan
3541:Udupi Ramachandra Rao
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3243:Banarsidas Chaturvedi
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3049:Minoo Merwan Engineer
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1350:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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4712:T. V. Gopalakrishnan
4502:Hariprasad Chaurasia
4484:Nataraja Ramakrishna
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4096:V. K. Narayana Menon
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3937:Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
3521:Zehra Ali Yavar Jung
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3435:Madhav Sadashiv Gore
3425:Dilbagh Singh Athwal
3207:Bal Dattatreya Tilak
3069:Sourendra Nath Kohli
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2547:Ashok Sekhar Ganguly
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2299:Rajendra K. Pachauri
2269:Daulat Singh Kothari
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2001:Jivraj Narayan Mehta
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1260:Ajudhiya Nath Khosla
1230:Jyotindra Nath Dixit
1074:Hrishikesh Mukherjee
1054:Kelucharan Mohapatra
999:Yamini Krishnamurthy
929:Adoor Gopalakrishnan
909:Hariprasad Chaurasia
884:M. Balamuralikrishna
774:Between Two Tanpuras
763:Hess, Linda (2009).
432:Hess 2009, pp. 16–17
291:Satyasheel Deshpande
4807:People from Belgaum
4670:Saroja Vaidyanathan
4619:C. V. Chandrasekhar
4406:Sushil Kumar Saxena
3967:Kali Charan Patnaik
3617:K. S. Narayanaswamy
3470:Kirpal Singh Narang
3455:Pancheti Koteswaram
3182:Birendranath Sircar
3092:N. G. Krishna Murti
3054:Inderjit Singh Gill
3009:Jagjit Singh Aurora
2883:Mungtu Ram Jaipuria
2777:Krishnaswami Ramiah
2757:Bhagwantrao Mandloi
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2196:Mulayam Singh Yadav
2096:Ravi Narayana Reddy
2056:Nanabhoy Palkhivala
2006:V. K. Krishna Menon
1956:Murli Manohar Joshi
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1846:Parkash Singh Badal
1714:Autar Singh Paintal
1538:Dhondo Keshav Karve
1483:Satyendra Nath Bose
1455:Narinder Nath Vohra
1425:Lallan Prasad Singh
1109:Kaloji Narayana Rao
1059:Raghunath Mohapatra
994:Ghulam Mustafa Khan
25:Pt. Kumar Gandharva
4797:Hindustani singers
4765:Daya Prakash Sinha
4750:Sunayana Hazarilal
4694:A. K. C. Natarajan
4550:Padma Subrahmanyam
4355:Bindhyabasini Devi
4224:Mrinalini Sarabhai
4128:Chandravadan Mehta
4119:Mallikarjun Mansur
4083:D. T. Joshi (1979)
4021:M. S. Subbulakshmi
4015:Jnan Prakash Ghosh
3829:Pichu Sambamoorthi
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2828:N. Ramaswami Ayyar
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2562:Anil Manibhai Naik
2530:Trade and industry
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2264:Har Gobind Khorana
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1941:Lakshmi Chand Jain
1931:V. R. Krishna Iyer
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1568:Sitakant Mahapatra
1340:Bhairab Dutt Pande
1280:Pratap Chandra Lal
1154:M. S. Subbulakshmi
1034:Mallikarjun Mansur
672:"The inner spring"
533:on 15 October 2015
360:In popular culture
262:Vasundhara Komkali
77:, Karnataka, India
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1966:Mehdi Nawaz Jung
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