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Pandit Amarnath

22 March 1924 – 09 March 1996

22 March 1924 – 09 March 1996

Pandit Amarnath

Pandit Amarnath​ Complete Musician

Pandit Amarnath, a musical genius, was widely acknowledged as the foremost exponent of the Indore gharaana, pioneered by his guru, the late Ustad Amir Khan Saheb. Born in 1924 in the village of Jhang near Lahore, he was voted by critic Dr. Raghava Menon in The Times of India as one of the four great genius-musicians of Hindustani music in the 20th century.

Panditji’s genius was evident in the fact that he was a rare complete musician; he was a singer, a composer, a teacher, a musicologist, a scholar and an author who compiled a lexicon of terms of Hindustani music.

He passed on in 1996 at the age of seventy-one, leaving behind a treasure of his art that is both majestic and sublime.

Pandit Amarnath, a musical genius, was widely acknowledged as the foremost exponent of the Indore gharaana, pioneered by his guru, the late Ustad Amir Khan Saheb. Born in 1924 in the village of Jhang near Lahore, he was voted by critic Dr. Raghava Menon in The Times of India as one of the four great genius-musicians of Hindustani music in the 20th century.

Panditji’s genius was evident in the fact that he was a rare complete musician; he was a singer, a composer, a teacher, a musicologist, a scholar and an author who compiled a lexicon of terms of Hindustani music.

He passed on in 1996 at the age of seventy-one, leaving behind a treasure of his art that is both majestic and sublime.

Tributes

A guru with an encyclopaedic mind… Amarnath is a rare, highly intellectual musician… Indeed among the tallest of musicians…

Patriot

A musician’s musician…

The Statesman

Pandit Amarnath communicates his understanding of the nature of Hindustani music with the flair and pleasure that Bernstein brings to western music… As a communicator he has few peers…

The Times of India

Few musicians in the world are able to achieve such heights…

Stuart Cary Welch

Harvard University

Pandit Amarnath’s is the passing of a great savant of our musical art… creating a spiritual void difficult to dispel… Another of Indore’s immutable names, whose music was the most mathematical and intellectual of his time… His bandishes had a curious grieving quality whose fingerprint was the raga’s emotional essence…

Dr. Raghava Menon

The Journey Musical Odyssey

The Legacy In Frames

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