Annapurna Devi

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Annapurna Devi (Bengali pronunciation: [ɔnːopurɳa debi]; 17 April 1927 – 13 October 2018) was an Indian surbahar player of Hindustani classical music and an influential music teacher. The daughter and disciple of Ustad Allauddin Khan and younger sister of sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, she was trained in the Maihar gharana and became a master of the surbahar. Although she gave relatively few public performances and withdrew from the concert stage in the 1950s, she was regarded by musicians and connoisseurs as an exceptional exponent of Hindustani classical music and was described by the Sangeet Natak Akademi as the "doyenne of the Maihar gharana". Devi performed publicly with her first husband and fellow disciple Ravi Shankar during the 1940s and 1950s. Despite her short performing career and the scarcity of recordings of her playing, her musicianship was held in unusually high regard. Shankar himself described her playing as being of an "extremely advanced order" and her command of...

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