The Recent History Of Indian Classical Music

The history of music and especially the classical music history of India have always expressed the loftiest fact in music and in the last century, the Indian music treasure is spread throughout the world and strangely available in the west. When it comes to the musicians, the first Indian musician who comes to the front was the Rabindranath Tagor, he was from Bengal. He earned a Nobel Prize in 1913 with his great poems. Those poems were championed by luminaries. The poems were accompanied by Ezra Pound and W.B Yeats. Then over thousands of such poems were put to music and now these poems are still sung among the educated and illiterate both the classes.

Kazi Nazrul Islam was another great singer who was also from Bengal he wrote some great songs which were equally appreciated both by Muslims and Hindu communities. None of the Latest Indian songs can take that like appreciation. The singer and legendary voice Dillip Kumar Roy sung those songs. He was known as the golden voice of India. He traveled all over the India and collects the music and techniques from some great Indian musicians and singers. Recently Sri Chinmoy a great composer writes over thirteen thousand songs but in his Bengali language and holds concerts all over the world with western music and instruments.

The western world mostly likes and loves the instrumental music of India rather than the vocals as they are unfamiliar with the Hindi or Urdu languages. In the twentieth century a Sufi Master Inayat khan experiments his spiritual music in the west and get great appreciations. The famous Indian legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar in 1960s creates some great music in association with the George Harrison. Those Indian old songs and the songs and the songs later after 1960s by a Sarangi player Ali Ustad Khan, a Tabla player Zakir Hussain and Nikhil Bannerji on Sitar comes to prominence in such fusion and classical music to the west.