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- Rabindra Sangeet (Bengali: রবীন্দ্র সঙ্গীত; pronounced [robindɾo ʃoŋɡit]), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, [ 1 ] the first Indian [ 2 ] and also the first non-European to receive such recognition. [ 3 ]
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Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (/ r ə ˈ b ɪ n d r ə n ɑː t t æ ˈ ɡ ɔːr / ⓘ; pronounced [roˈbindɾonatʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ]; [1] 7 May 1861 [2] – 7 August 1941 [3]) was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.
Oct 11, 2024 · Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta) was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on ...
The Upanishads influenced his writing throughout his life, and his devotional music is addressed almost always to an inanimate entity, a personal, a private god, whom modernists call the Other. Rabindranath Tagore was a curator of melodic and compositional styles.
Tagore on music and musical aesthetics. Author: Ray, Sitansu. Issue Date: 1980. Publisher: Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi. Description: Rabindranath Tagore was both a composer and a critic in the field of music.
- Ray, Sitansu
- June 21, 2017
- India
Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West.
By his own open admission, Rabindranath Tagore was a great lover of Hindustani classical music (which he liked to address as Hindustani Sangeet). Born into the highly cultured and famous zamindar family of Dwarakanath Tagore who, along with Raja Ram Mohan Roy, founded the Brahmo Samaj, the young Rabindranath
Place of Music in his Life. Music was an important part of Rabindranath’s education. The family music teacher, Vishnu Chakraborty, taught youngsters the common Bengali folk songs. He has described how he loved them: Tabla drums. “The modern custom is first to practice scales – sa-re-gama, etc., on the harmonium, and then to teach some ...
