Birthdays & Anniversaries
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| 10.8.1855 - 16.3.1946 |
At birth, he was named Ghulam Ahmed, but people began
calling him Alladiya [Given by Allah] because he was born in answer to the
prayers of his parents who had lost all their earlier children as infants.
A
superlative musician whose singing was marked by grace, power and aristocratic
mien, Alladiya Khan created a new style of music which came to be identified as
the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana (out of the many styles which were represented in
Jaipur in his time). Led by him, the gharana has given voice to hundreds of
raga-s. His style of music “made even common raga-s appear more beautiful and
full of unexpected twists and turns.... It was full of intricate but beautiful
tana-s....” (B.R. Deodhar). The spirit and liveliness of Khan Saheb lives in
the music-making of his legatees, though the style itself has undergone
mutations in recent times.
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