Music of Andhra Pradesh

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There were eminent mridangam artists like "Mrudanga Kesari" Mullapudi Lakshmana Rao and his son Mullapudi Sri Rama Murty. And his disciple " Mrudanga Shiromani" Dharmala Rama Murty and his son Dharmala Venkateshwara Rao. There were other legends like ML Lakshminarayana Raju and Kamalakara Rao.

Classical music

The major composers like

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna, Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao, Srirangam Gopalaratnam, Sripada Pinakapani, Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana, Lalita & Haripriya, D. Raghavachary & Seshachary, Dr. Dwaram Lakshmi, Manda Sudharani, Parthasarathy N. Ch, and Dr. Dwaram Tyagaraj. Also Yella Venkatesara Rao, Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam), Pantula Rama, U. Srinivas (mandolin), D. Srinivas (veena), Tirupati Srivani Yalla (veena), Marella Kesava Rao, Ivaturi Vijayeshwara Rao, Akella Mallikarjuna Sharma, and Avasarala Kanyakumari (Violin) are some of the eminent instrumentalists from Andhra Pradesh
.

Film music

Pendyala Nageswara Rao, R. Sudarshanam, and R. Goverdhanam duo made contribution to folklore and mythological films.[4][5] Madhavapeddi Satyam, P. Adinarayana Rao, Gali Penchala Narasimha Rao, Satyam, P. B. Sreenivas, S. P. Kodandapani, G. K. Venkatesh, S. Hanumantha Rao, have contributed their work extensively for films with social relevance themes.[6] Ghantasala, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela, S. Janaki, M. M. Keeravani, Ramesh Naidu etc., are some of the musicians and playback singers from Andhra Pradesh to receive National recognition. R. P. Patnaik is the current president of Andhra Pradesh Cine Music Association.[7]

Other prominent Telugu

Sri Kommineni
.

References

  1. ^ The Hindu : National : French honour for Balamuralikrishna
  2. ^ Maestro in many moods | The Hindu
  3. ^ Untitled Document Archived 2013-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ cinegoer.net - Nostalgia - AVM's Bhookailas Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Special story on veteran music director Susarla Dakshinamurthy - Etv2,Susarla Dakshinamurthy, Music|TELUGISM.COM
  6. ^ Rao, P. Surya (11 July 2008). "Melodious tribute". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  7. ^ "No more Telugu music recording in Chennai". The Times of India. 24 May 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2019.