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Guruvaibhavam 2020, our first Guruvaibhavam event, focussed on Muthuswami Dikshitar, one of the Trinities in Carnatic music.
27 young talented singers participated from various culturally nurtured villages across district. Our participants performed 11 Muthuswami Dikshitar kritis covering varied ragas and talas. They were accompanied by Smt Susheela Swaminathan on Violin and Sri Rajagopal Ramamoorthy on Mridangam.
The program was inaugurated by our respected elderly members of Nurani village.
Our anchors took us through the journey describing each Kriti origin, meaning, how it was created, ragas, talas, making the experience for our audience so blissful and complete.
The program was concluded with the felicitation ceremony of maithree members, our guru and momentos to our participants.
Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar
About Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar
About Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar
Muthuswami Dikshitar (Mudduswamy Dikshitar)[1](IAST: muttusvāmi dīkṣitar, 24 March 1776 – 21 October 1835), mononymously Dikshitar, was a South Indian poet, singer and veena player, and a legendary composer of Indian classical music, who is considered one of the musical trinity of Carnatic music. Muthuswami Dikshitar was born on 24 March 1775 in Tiruvarur near Thanjavur, in what is now the state of Tamil Nadu in India, to a family that is traditionally traced back to Virinichipuram in the northern boundaries of the state. His compositions, of which around 500 are commonly known, are noted for their elaborate and poetic descriptions of Hindu gods and temples and for capturing the essence of the raga forms through the vainika (veena) style that emphasises gamakas. They are typically in a slower speed (chowka kala). He is also known by his signature name of Guruguha which is also his mudra (and can be found in each of his songs). His compositions are widely sung and played in classical concerts of Carnatic music.
The musical trinity consists of Dikshitar, Tyagaraja (1767–1847), and Syama Sastri (1762–1827). However, unlike the Telugu compositions of the others, his compositions are predominantly in Sanskrit. He also composed some of his kritis in Manipravalam (a combination of the Sanskrit and Tamil languages).
There are two schools of thought regarding the pronunciation of his name. The name is popularly pronounced as 'Muthuswamy Dikshitar'. Muthuswami is an extremely common Tamil name (Muthu translates to pearl in Tamil, cognate to Muktha/Moti in Sanskrit and Hindi) and is derived from Selvamuthukumaraswamy, a deity of the famed Vaideeswaran temple in Myladuthurai. However, T K Govinda Rao explains in Compositions of Mudduswamy Dikshitar that "the word Muddayya is an epithet of Kumaraswami or Guha. Further, in the most authentic original Telugu publication of Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini (1904) Sri Subbarama Dikshitar mentions his name as Mudduswamy. Also, in the popular composition of Dikshitar, "Bhajare re Chitha" in raga Kalyani, the "mudra" or signaure of the composer appears in the text as "Guruguha Roopa Muddu Kumara Jananeem".
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