Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar

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Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar
Born(1900-01-01)1 January 1900
OriginMumbai
Died14 February 1974(1974-02-14) (aged 74)
GenresHindustani classical music
Occupation(s)Musicologist

Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar born 31 December 1899 and died 14 February 1974. He was a distinguished scholar and teacher of

Bhatkhande Music Institute (Bhatkande Sangeet Sansthan), Lucknow, for many years, where he trained many noted names in the field of music.[1]

Early life

His father Narayan Govind Ratanjankar was born in Mumbai. Ratanjankar's grand father, Govindrao came to Mumbai in the middle of 19 th century. After graduation Shrikrishna's father, Narayanrao became a police officer in the then British regime. At the age of 7, S.N.Ratanjankar was trained under the guidance of Krishnam Bhatt of Karwar. He also received instruction from

Bombay University
in 1926. It was his Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande who sent Ratanjankar to Ustad Faiyaz Khan for a six-year studentship.

Career

In the year 1925, Ratanjankar graduated (BA) from the

C R Vyas, Chinmoy Lahiri, Yashwant Mahale, S.N.Tripathi, Roshan Lal Nagrath
(music director).

As a vocalist he sang

Khayal styles of Agra gharana[citation needed]. A known musicologist like his mentor Bhatkhande, Ratanjankar has more than 800 compositions under his pen name "Sujaan", notated and documented diligently by his disciple K. G. Ginde[citation needed
]. He also published books including Geet Manjari, Taan Sangrah, Sangeet Shiksha, and Abhinava Raga Manjari.

He also composed some new ragas such as Marga Bihag, Gopika Basant, Kedar Bahar, Sawani Kedar, Ranjani Kalyan, Hansaranjani, and Salagvarali.

He was appointed Chairman of the Jury of Auditions of AIR (All India Radio) in the mid-1950s.[5]

In 1957 he was awarded the

Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.[7]

References

  1. ^ S N Ratanjankar Celebrated Masters, ITC Sangeet Research Academy.
  2. ^ Deshpande, p. 96.
  3. ^ "Inspiring teacher". The Hindu. 29 February 2008. Archived from the original on 6 March 2008.
  4. ^ "It's raining ragas". The Hindu. 20 July 2007. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012.
  5. ^ The thorn of re-auditioning The Hindu, 5 November 2009.
  6. ^ "Padma Awards". Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
  7. ^ "SNA: List of Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Puraskar winners (Akademi Fellows)". Official website. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011.
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