Dabir Khan

Dabir Khan was a 20th-century beenkar and vocalist. He was the grandson of legendary vina player Wazir Khan.[1]

Dabir Khan

Career

Dabir Khan learned vina from his grandfather, Wazir Khan. He was employed at All India Radio Calcutta[2] and in 1969 was awarded a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.[3] Among the pupils of Dabir Khan was K.C. Dey,Pandit Santosh Banerjee (Formerly head of department of instrumental music, Rabindra Bharati University,Calcutta), Asit De (Head of the Theory Division of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata) and Manna Dey.[4]

Dabir Khan as Examiner to his student Clem Alford at Midnapore,West Bengal in 1969.

Personal life

Dabir Khan was born in Rampur State in 1905. He died in 1972.[5]

See also

References
  1. The Geography of Hindustani Music: The Influence of Region and Regionalism . ISBN 9781109003420.
  2. Gopal, Rupa. "The Tansen legacy". The Hindu.
  3. "SNA: Awardeeslist". sangeetnatak.gov.in. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016.
  4. Chakrabarti, Kunal; Chakrabarti, Shubhra (22 August 2013). Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis. ISBN 9780810880245.
  5. McCollum, Jonathan; Hebert, David G (11 September 2014). Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology. ISBN 9781498507059.
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