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Ravi Shankar

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Ravi Shankar, often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian sitarist and composer. He has been described as the most well known contemporary Indian musician by Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956. In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.

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Discography

  • Portrait of Genius
  • Sound of the Sitar
  • Festival from India (disc 1)
  • The Unparalleled Pt. Ravi Shankar
  • Tana Mana
  • Festival from India (disc 2)
  • In Celebration (disc 2: Orchestral and Ensembles)
  • Inde du Nord
  • The Teacher - Key Works
  • Monument of Strings
  • The Spirit of India
  • Ragas & Talas
  • Ravi Shankar Presents The Master Drummers of India
  • Ustad Alla Rakha
  • Raga Jogeshwari
  • Raga Tala
  • Ragas Varanasi
  • The Golden Collection
  • In Celebration (disc 1: Classical Sitar)
  • A Morning Raga, An Evening Raga
  • Traditional Ragas (disc 1)
  • Traditional Ragas (disc 2)
  • Three Ragas, 1956
  • Ravi Shankar In Concert, 1962
  • In London, 1964
  • The Sounds of India, 1968
  • Shankar Family & Friends, 1974
  • Raga-Mala (Sitar Concerto No. 2), 1982
  • Pandit Ravi Shankar, 1986
  • Spirit Of India, 1988
  • Inside the Kremlin, 1989
  • Maestro's Choice: Series One, 1991
  • Menuhin meets Shankar (feat. Yehudi Menuhin ), 1993
  • Chants of India, 1997
  • In Concert, 1997
  • West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions, 1999
  • The Doyen of Hindustani Music, 1999
  • From Dusk to Dawn: The Raga Collection, 2000
  • Bridges, 2001
  • Homage To Mahatma Gandhi, 2004
  • Transmigration Macabre, 2006

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