Vilayat Khan
Vilayat Khan ( Bengali : বিলায়েত খাঁ, Vilaẏet Khã; born August 8, 1928 in Gauripur , today Bangladesh ; † March 13, 2004 in Mumbai ) was an Indian sitar virtuoso . The details of the year of his birth vary between 1924 and 1928.
Life
At the age of 8, Khan recorded his first record. He was noticed in the music scene after he was praised as a Ustād (master) at the age of only 17 .
Vilayat Khan stands in the family tradition of the Etawah Gharana , which is also called Imdadkhani Gharana after his grandfather Imdad Khan (1848–1920) . After only six years of training, his father and guru Enayat Khan (1894–1938) died. Vilayat Khan was then trained by his maternal grandfather, Gange Hassan, and his uncle Zinda Hassan Khan, who were both singers.
Vilayat Khan considered himself a traditionalist purist. He shaped Indian (vocal) music with his own instrumental style and was both orthodox and innovative. His work was a contribution to the living continuation of the tradition of Indian ragas .
Since 1950 Vilayat Khan has been on concert tours abroad. He played in Europe, the USA, Japan, East Africa and also in Buckingham Palace for Elizabeth II. In addition to his concert activities and recordings, he also wrote music for films. The best known of these are: Kama Sutra by Mira Nair , The Guru by James Ivory and The Music Room by Satyajit Ray .
He rejected the award of government awards ( Padma Shri , 1964; Padma Vibhushan 1968 and 2000) on the grounds that the award-givers were incapable of judging artistic format. From the Indian Classical Artists Association , however, he took the title Bharat Sitar Samrat (roughly: "Sitar Emperor of India").
Together with Ravi Shankar he was the most famous sitar player in western countries. His younger brother Imrat Khan (1935–2018) plays the sitar and surbahar .
literature
- Hans Utter: Networks of Music and History: Vilayat Khan and the Emerging Sitar. (Dissertation) The Ohio State University, 2011
Web links
- No compromises in his art. The Hindu, 2004
- Ustad Vilayat Khan (1928-2004). The Milli Gazette, March 16-30 April 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ Those who said no to top awards. In: The Times of India , January 20, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Khan, Vilayat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian sitar virtuoso |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gauripur , today Bangladesh |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 2004 |
| Place of death | Mumbai |