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of India, "The noted musician was disappointed that the Indian government never recognized his contributions, even as several of his juniors and those who trained under him were presented with Padma awards".
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For decades, Imrat Khan recorded extensively on both his instruments. His full performance practice started with a surbahar alap in
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on 17 November 1935 into a family of musicians tracing its roots back for several generations, to the court musicians of the
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rulers. The training in music traditionally has been passed down from father to son for nearly 400 years. He belonged to
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added bass strings to their sitars to achieve at least some of the surbahar's lower range on a single instrument).
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in 1970. He spent a portion of each year teaching classical Indian music and instructing sitar students at
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From 1961 onwards, Imrat Khan performed and recorded solo, playing both sitar and surbahar.
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Times of India (newspaper), Published 3 February 2017, Retrieved 14 July 2020
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Imrat Khan's music has been featured in films made by noted filmmakers like
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where both the brothers learned sitar-playing extensively from their uncle
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Imrat Khan died on 22 November 2018 at age 83 due to a stroke in
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player and composer. He was the younger brother of sitar maestro
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in traditional Imdadkhani style. (Sitar players such as
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Sitar Music in Calcutta: An Ethnomusicological Study
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Calcutta
British India
St. Louis
Missouri
Classical musician
Sitar
Surbahar
surbahar
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Padma Shri
sitar
surbahar
Ustad Vilayat Khan
Calcutta
Mughal
Etawah gharana
Imdadkhani gharana
Enayat Khan
Imdad Khan
Vilayat Khan
Bombay
Wahid Khan
Calcutta
Soviet Union
dhrupad
Ravi Shankar
Nikhil Banerjee
Europe
United States

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