Bimalendu Mukherjee

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Bimalendu Mukherjee (2 January 1925 - 22 January 2010) {{Cite web |url=https://www.justdial.com/JdSocial/news/1548131611980000 |title=Archived copy |access-date=26 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026185134/https://www.justdial.com/JdSocial/news/1548131611980000 |archive-date=26 October 2019 |url-status=dead }} was an Indian classical sitar player and music teacher.{{cite news |title=Stringing along |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/10/10/stories/2008101051000300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014064611/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/10/10/stories/2008101051000300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 October 2008 |work=The Hindu |date=10 October 2008 |accessdate=6 May 2009 }}{{cite book|title=Who's who of Indian musicians|publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi|year=1968|pages=45}}

Mukherjee is a learned and eclectic musician – although he was an Imdadkhani sitar student of Enayat Khan, a full list of his teachers also includes sitarist Balaram Pathak, khyal singers Badri Prasad and Jaichand Bhatt of the Patiala and Kirana gharanas, Rampur gharana beenkar Jyotish Chandra Chowdhury, sarangi and esraj players Halkeram Bhat (Maihar gharana) and Chandrikaprasad Dube (Gaya gharana{{what|date=April 2018}}) and pakhavaj player Madhavrao Alkutkar. He also studied with Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury, the zamindar of Gouripur in present-day Bangladesh, who taught him the moribund sursringar (bass sarod).

Mukherjee is the father and teacher of sitar player Budhaditya Mukherjee.{{cite book|last=Kinnear|first=Michael S|title=A discography of Hindustani and Karnatic music|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1985|pages=39|isbn=0-313-24479-0}} His other students include Shri Sudhakar Sheolikar, [https://www.avaneendrasheolikar.com/ Shri Avaneendra Sheolikar], Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Sudhir, Anupama Bhagwat,{{cite news |title=Sitar recital set for San Ramon |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=OKTB&p_theme=oktb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=111B86B9D18BDA10&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=The Oakland Tribune |date=19 May 2006 |accessdate=6 May 2009 }} Rajeev Janardan, Kamala Shankar.