Prominent composers Carnatic music
a portrait of tyagaraja – 1 among celebrated carnatic trinity
there many composers in carnatic music. purandara dasa (1480–1564) referred pitamaha (the father or grandfather) of carnatic music formulated basic lessons in teaching carnatic music, , in honour of significant contribution carnatic music. structured graded exercises known swaravalis , alankaras, , @ same time, introduced raga mayamalavagowla first scale learnt beginners. composed gitas (simple songs) novice students.
the contemporaries tyagaraja (1759? – 1847), muthuswami dikshitar, (1776–1827) , syama sastri, (1762–1827) regarded trinity of carnatic music because of quality of syama sastri s compositions, varieties of compositions of muthuswami dikshitar, , tyagaraja s prolific output in composing kritis.
prominent composers prior trinity of carnatic music include arunachala kavi, annamacharya, narayana theertha, vijaya dasa, jagannatha dasa, gopala dasa, bhadrachala ramadas, sadasiva brahmendra , oottukkadu venkata kavi. other composers swathi thirunal, gopalakrishna bharathi, neelakanta sivan, patnam subramania iyer, mysore vasudevachar, koteeswara iyer, muthiah bhagavathar, subramania bharathiyar , papanasam sivan. compositions of these composers rendered artists of today.
composers of carnatic music inspired religious devotion , scholars proficient in 1 or more of languages kannada, malayalam, sanskrit, tamil, or telugu. included signature, called mudra, in compositions. example, songs tyagaraja (who composed in telugu) have word tyagaraja in them, songs muthuswami dikshitar (who composed in sanskrit) have words guruguha in them; songs syama sastri (who composed in telugu) have words syama krishna in them; songs purandaradasa (who composed in kannada) have words purandara vittala; while gopalakrishna bharathi (who composed in tamil) used signature gopalakrishnan in compositions. papanasam sivan, has been hailed tamil tyagaraja of carnatic music, composed in tamil , sanskrit, , used signature ramadasan in compositions.
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