Occupation Sitar player Parents Imdad Khan Name Enayat Khan | Role Vilayat Khan's father Siblings Waheed Khan Died 1938, Kolkata | |
Born 1894 Uttar Pradesh Grandchildren Shujaat Khan, Hidayat Khan, Shafaatullah Khan, Nishat Khan, Wajahat Khan, Zila Khan, Yaman Khan Similar People Vilayat Khan, Imrat Khan, Shujaat Khan, Wajahat Khan, Nishat Khan | ||
Children Vilayat Khan, Imrat Khan | ||
Ustad enayat khan sitar classics hindustani classical raga
Ustad Enayat Khan (Urdu: عنایت خان ) (1894–1938) was one of India's most influential sitar and surbahar players in the first decades of the 20th Century. He was the father of Vilayat Khan, one of the topmost sitariyas of the postwar period.
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- Ustad enayat khan sitar classics hindustani classical raga
- Ustad allauddin khan ustad enayat khan hindustani classical raga vairabi raga behag
- Early life
- Performing career
- Death
- References
Ustad allauddin khan ustad enayat khan hindustani classical raga vairabi raga behag
Early life
Enayat Khan was born in Uttar Pradesh into a family of musicians.[1] His father was the great sitar maestro Imdad Khan, who taught him the sitar and surbahar (bass sitar) in the family style, known as the Imdadkhani Gharana or Etawah Gharana (school), named after a small village near Agra called Etawah. He married Basiran Bibi, daughter of khyal singer Bande Hussain.
Performing career
He settled with his family in Calcutta, where, though he only lived to 43, he did much pioneering work on the sitar. For example, he standardised its physical dimensions and added the upper resonator gourd, which is very popular with today's players (though his own descendants have not kept using it). In a place rapidly developing into an important North Indian centre of the arts, at a time where interest in national culture was strong fuelled by the struggle for independence, he brought sitar music out from its narrow connoisseur circles to new mass audiences. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was a musical collaborator and personal friend. Some of Enayat Khan's recordings have been released on CD, on the Great Gharanas: Imdadkhani compilation in RPG/EMI's Chairman's Choice series.
Death
Enayat Khan died young, with four children. His two sons, Vilayat Khan and Imrat, were trained in the Imdadkhani style by other members of his extended family. Vilayat learned the sitar and Imrat the surbahar; both were to become very famous classical musicians.