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29. Mai 2024 · Ravi Shankar (born April 7, 1920, Benares [now Varanasi], India—died December 11, 2012, San Diego, California, U.S.) was an Indian musician, player of the sitar, composer, and founder of the National Orchestra of India, who was influential in stimulating Western appreciation of Indian music.
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2. Apr. 2014 · Ravi Shankar was an Indian musician and composer best known for popularizing the sitar and Indian classical music in Western culture.
7. Apr. 2020 · Indian Sun is a new authoritative biography of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar's life, published to coincide with this year's centenary of his birth.
Ravi Shankar war ein indischer Musiker und Komponist, der das Zupfinstrument Sitar spielte. Shankar verbrachte seine Jugend damit, in der Tanzgruppe seines Bruders Uday Shankar Europa und Indien zu bereisen. 1938 gab er das Tanzen auf, um das Sitar-Spielen unter Hofmusiker Allauddin Khan zu erlernen. Nachdem er seine Lehre 1944 ...
A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, [4] and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999.
A Life in Music. Ravi Shankar was born in Varanasi, India on April 7, 1920 and spent his youth performing across Europe and India as a member of his brother Uday's dance troupe. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study the sitar under the legendary court musician Ustad Allauddin Khan.