Sumati Mutatkar

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Vidushi Sumati Mutatkar (10 September 1916 – 28 February 2007) was an Indian classical music vocalist and musicologist from the Agra gharana of Hindustani classical music, and a Professor of Department of Music in University of Delhi.

She was awarded the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, for lifetime achievement, the 1979 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship{{cite web|url=http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/fellowslist.htm|title=SNA: List of Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Puraskar winners (Akademi Fellows)|publisher=Official website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727235210/http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/fellowslist.htm|archive-date=2011-07-27}} and the Padma Shri in 1999, by Government of India.{{cite web|title=Padma Awards|publisher=Ministry of Communications and Information Technology|url=http://india.gov.in/myindia/padma_awards.php}} She was also awarded the Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2001-2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.mpinfo.org/mpinfonew/hindi/award/kalidas.asp|title=Rashtriya Kalidas Samman (in Hindi)|publisher=Department of Public Relations, Madhya Pradesh Government|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923005204/http://www.mpinfo.org/mpinfonew/hindi/award/kalidas.asp|archive-date=2010-09-23}}{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/08/29/stories/0229000m.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023172805/http://hindu.com/thehindu/2001/08/29/stories/0229000m.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 October 2010|title=Kalidas award for Yamini Krishnamurthy|newspaper=The Hindu|date=29 August 2001}}

Early life and training

She was born in Balaghat in the then province of C.P. and Berar, the oldest child of Gajanan Amberdekar, a judge, and Sundari Subedar.

She received training in Hindustani classical music from various teachers, including Pandit Rajabhaiya Poochwale of Gwalior gharana, Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan of Agra gharana, and Pandit Anant Manohar Joshi and Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan (d. 1964) of the Rampur gharana.Mukherji, p. 134 She was, however, primarily a student of Pandit S. N. Ratanjankar.Ghosh, p. 29 at the Bhatkhande Music Institute—earlier known as the Marris College—in Lucknow.

Career

In 1953, she joined as the Director of Music at the All India Radio (AIR) and subsequently became Deputy Chief Producer of Music. Later, in 1968 she joined the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, at the Delhi University, eventually retiring in September 1981 as the Dean of the Faculty. During her tenure, she supervised numerous research programs in the field of music, as well published several books on the subject.[http://www.sruti.com/2007/sruti_magazine_july_2007.php OBITUARY: In Memoriam Professor Dr. Sumati Mutatkar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724161623/http://www.sruti.com/2007/sruti_magazine_july_2007.php |date=2008-07-24 }}

She died on 28 February 2007, at a private hospital in Kolkata, after a brief bronchial illness at the age of 91; she was survived by her daughter.[http://www.itcsra.org/sra_news_views/obituary/sumati_mutatkar.html Remembering Sumati Mutatkar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516100954/http://www.itcsra.org/sra_news_views/obituary/sumati_mutatkar.html |date=2008-05-16 }} ITC Sangeet Research Academy.

Bibliography

Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar 'Sujan': a many splendoured genius. Lotus Collection, 2001. {{ISBN|81-7436-175-8}}.
Geet Nijhari : Sumit Mutakar Rachit Bandisho Ka Sangrah ( Hindi) . Kanishka Publishiners, 2002.
Aspects of Indian music. Sangeet Natak Akademi, 2006. {{ISBN|81-7871-096-X}}.
Sumati-Sangitabharanam: Gems of Indian Music and Musicology (Prof. Sumati Mutatkar Felicitation Volume), by Abha Kulshreshtha, Sumati Mutatkar, Jagdish Sahai. 1994. {{ISBN|81-85268-31-2}}.

References

{{cite book|last=Ghosh |first=Tapasi |title=Pran piya Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan: his life and contribution to the world of music|publisher=Atlantic Publishers|year=2008|isbn=978-81-269-0855-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aa_gH_MNZesC&q=sumati+mutatkar&pg=PA29|ref=Ta}}
{{cite book |title=The Lost World of Hindustani Music |author=Kumar Prasad Mukherji |publisher=Penguin Books India |year=2006|isbn=0143061992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-MR_6Gr26hAC&q=Shanno+Khurana&pg=PA134 |ref=Mu }}

Category:Hindustani singers

Category:1916 births

Category:2007 deaths

Category:Indian women musicologists

Category:Indian musicologists

Category:Academic staff of Delhi University

Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts

Category:Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship

Category:Agra gharana

Category:20th-century Indian singers

Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists

Category:Singers from Madhya Pradesh